PCB looking for power-hitting coaches for NHPC

[Major]

PCB has recently posted a job advertisement for the positions batting, bowling and fielding.

One of the standout positions was that they are also now looking for power hitting coaches.

This is quite interesting. I wonder if power hitting coaches even exist in cricket? Maybe we should try to recruit someone from the baseball leagues?

Isn't that what England did back in 2015?


As part of its key strategic objective of achieving cricketing excellence by strengthening the foundation of Pakistan cricket through investment into pathways cricket, the Pakistan Cricket Board today launched its search for highly qualified and skilled coaches, who will be based at Lahore’s state of the art National High Performance Centre.

In this relation, the cricket board on Friday posted advertisements for the High Performance Coach as well as batting, bowling, fielding and power-hitting coaches, who, among other qualifications, must boast a minimum experience of five years.

The High Performance Coach will be required to provide integrated and holistic coaching support to the players across all formats and levels, including life and mental preparedness. He will also be responsible for identifying talent and defining objectives for individual players that would facilitate excellence and augmentation in the players’ game, personalities and leadership, following in the PCB’s vision, Philosophy and approach.

The batting, bowling, fielding and power-hitting coaches, among other qualifications, will lead the PCB’s development programmes. They will also be responsible for identifying objectives for individual players within their areas of responsibilities that would facilitate excellence and augmentation in skills enhancements.

While advertisements for the national team coaches will be posted in due course, last date for submission of applications for five the National High Performance Centre coaches is 17 January 2022. The shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by a panel of experts before the candidates are finalised.

 

[anonymous_guy]

I think Trent Woodhill is one such power hitting coach.

 

[Saj]

I think in the past if someone had suggest a power-hitting coach was needed, they would have been called mad.

How the game has changed.

 

[Major]

I think in the past if someone had suggest a power-hitting coach was needed, they would have been called mad.

How the game has changed.

i remember laughing at the idea here on pp when England got power hitting coaches from baseball..

how wrong was I............

 

[muqarrab]

PCB has recently posted a job advertisement for the positions batting, bowling and fielding.

One of the standout positions was that they are also now looking for power hitting coaches.

This is quite interesting. I wonder if power hitting coaches even exist in cricket? Maybe we should try to recruit someone from the baseball leagues?

Isn't that what England did back in 2015?


As part of its key strategic objective of achieving cricketing excellence by strengthening the foundation of Pakistan cricket through investment into pathways cricket, the Pakistan Cricket Board today launched its search for highly qualified and skilled coaches, who will be based at Lahore’s state of the art National High Performance Centre.

In this relation, the cricket board on Friday posted advertisements for the High Performance Coach as well as batting, bowling, fielding and power-hitting coaches, who, among other qualifications, must boast a minimum experience of five years.

The High Performance Coach will be required to provide integrated and holistic coaching support to the players across all formats and levels, including life and mental preparedness. He will also be responsible for identifying talent and defining objectives for individual players that would facilitate excellence and augmentation in the players’ game, personalities and leadership, following in the PCB’s vision, Philosophy and approach.

The batting, bowling, fielding and power-hitting coaches, among other qualifications, will lead the PCB’s development programmes. They will also be responsible for identifying objectives for individual players within their areas of responsibilities that would facilitate excellence and augmentation in skills enhancements.

While advertisements for the national team coaches will be posted in due course, last date for submission of applications for five the National High Performance Centre coaches is 17 January 2022. The shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by a panel of experts before the candidates are finalised.

Sure they have advertised for the roles but what about national team coaches? Still no advertisement for those, will rambo idiot impose saqlain on the national team?

 

[Major]

Sure they have advertised for the roles but what about national team coaches? Still no advertisement for those, will rambo idiot impose saqlain on the national team?

rameez said in an interview that he is of the belief that coaches at international level dont make a difference.

He said that i went to Imran Khan and told him look at Bangladesh, their staff was of millions and our staff was worth nothing, yet we white washed them in all the series.

So in short, our national team is in dooms.

 

[Sirris]

Nice, someone from Pakpassion should apply. Often times there are posters, who always know better.

 

[muqarrab]

rameez said in an interview that he is of the belief that coaches at international level dont make a difference.

He said that i went to Imran Khan and told him look at Bangladesh, their staff was of millions and our staff was worth nothing, yet we white washed them in all the series.

So in short, our national team is in dooms.

I have heard him say something similar before. What a joke especially when the national team captain is complaining about not having a batting coach. Rameez is out of touch with reality and another one of Khan's ******* occupying an important post.

 

[cricketerB94]

Wonder if there is any advertisement for tuk tuk coach, so Misbah can get his coaching career back on track.

 

[moghul]

Nice, someone from Pakpassion should apply. Often times there are posters, who always know better.

Sure, you don;t have to had played any type of cricket but should be good at googling.

 

[Pakpak]

Nice, someone from Pakpassion should apply. Often times there are posters, who always know better.

In all seriousness a good line of thinking, other than Asif, maybe Nawaz we don't have anyone who can slog ball after ball.

 

[Pakpak]

rameez said in an interview that he is of the belief that coaches at international level dont make a difference.

He said that i went to Imran Khan and told him look at Bangladesh, their staff was of millions and our staff was worth nothing, yet we white washed them in all the series.

So in short, our national team is in dooms.

Not sure what Ramiz is on about, sure in cricket a coach can be limited in what improvements they bring but its a must. You still need someone looking after the big aspects of the team in terms of tactics, man management and so on.

I also don't mind the setup we had for T20, one coach for one thing ie batting, bowling etc. Right now we are doing well due to good talent so maybe its masking the lack of coaching, the moment we drop off a little is when we will realise how badly we need a top coach.

 

[Bewal Express]

rameez said in an interview that he is of the belief that coaches at international level dont make a difference.

He said that i went to Imran Khan and told him look at Bangladesh, their staff was of millions and our staff was worth nothing, yet we white washed them in all the series.

So in short, our national team is in dooms.

RR must read my contributions on here- Coaches are waste of money. Its obvious that you have little or no interaction with what coaches do and if you did, you too would realise what a scam it is. PK cricket future lies in the hands of Babar, not expensive coaches.

 

[Bewal Express]

If you want power hitting, get the guys into the gym.

 

[Major]

RR must read my contributions on here- Coaches are waste of money. Its obvious that you have little or no interaction with what coaches do and if you did, you too would realise what a scam it is. PK cricket future lies in the hands of Babar, not expensive coaches.

if coaches were a waste of money, than india, australia, england, South africa and NZ would had been keeping a team management without coaches

 

[mazkhan]

I personally think the players should take up golf , especially practicing the driver with the wood club.

 

[mazkhan]

if coaches were a waste of money, than india, australia, england, South africa and NZ would had been keeping a team management without coaches

Look at the clueless England coaches down under.

Their county cricket setup that people rave about and what has it given burns and hameed players that are worse than imran farhat and taufeeq umar

 

[Saj]

These coaches won't come cheap I guess.

There are already Mohammad Yousuf and Shahid Aslam around as batting coaches, yet more such coaches are needed.

Could be an expensive venture.

 

[Bewal Express]

if coaches were a waste of money, than india, australia, england, South africa and NZ would had been keeping a team management without coaches

It's a job creation scheme. Unlike you guys I actually speak to FC cricketers and what they say about coaching. Players improve by playing, wanting to improve and given facilities to practice. The coaches at the FC level don't actually coach, they are mentors. Did Ravi coach Kohli or Rohit to become better players, no chance. Look at the disaster that is unfolding in the Ashes, what does Silverwood do?
Teams are improved and inspired by good Captains? Did the Windies team of the 70s to 90s have any coaches?

 

[Bewal Express]

These coaches won't come cheap I guess.

There are already Mohammad Yousuf and Shahid Aslam around as batting coaches, yet more such coaches are needed.

Could be an expensive venture.

PK has enough talent, just give them the facilities and talent will shine through. Don't waste money on guys that spout clichés and look concerned. It's a scam.

 

[hitthestump]

These coaches won't come cheap I guess.

There are already Mohammad Yousuf and Shahid Aslam around as batting coaches, yet more such coaches are needed.

Could be an expensive venture.

Well they make our players play pretty much around the clock these days. As long the money generated is being reinvested back into the game i won't be complaining.

 

[Giannis]

They need to introduce their batsmen to weights and build a world class gym.

 

[Major]

It's a job creation scheme. Unlike you guys I actually speak to FC cricketers and what they say about coaching. Players improve by playing, wanting to improve and given facilities to practice. The coaches at the FC level don't actually coach, they are mentors. Did Ravi coach Kohli or Rohit to become better players, no chance. Look at the disaster that is unfolding in the Ashes, what does Silverwood do?
Teams are improved and inspired by good Captains? Did the Windies team of the 70s to 90s have any coaches?

Again if coaches were a waste of money than all the teams i mentioned above wouldnt be wasting money on such appoitments.....

Thus, the decisions of 6 major cricketing boards means more than what posters who talked to a cricketer has to say.

Coaches make game plans, strategies and tactics.

One thing that you people forget is one side will win and the other side will lose.

Australia won world t20 and now might retain the ashes under langer....

England changed their batting style under the regime of their coach who also got a power hitting coach.

Rizwan became an opener in t20 due to misbah pushing him forward.

Sarfraz was performing well because he had moin khan as the coach at national level to help him.

Bob woolmer is still celebrated by pakistani fans....

Waseem akram worked with irfan pathan and everyone praised that transformation in his bowling.

Dave whatmore was celebrated coach due to the success he bought for sri lanka cricket.

Kirsteins success is also celebrated.

Stop acting as if you know better than the cricket boards who hire experts and financial advisors to help make decisions. Those people working in their management have got more experience. If they would hsd thought thay coaches were a waste of money, trust me, major teams wouls never have had hired coaches and dished money out. Especially in t20 leagues which are for a month.

 

[Major]

These coaches won't come cheap I guess.

There are already Mohammad Yousuf and Shahid Aslam around as batting coaches, yet more such coaches are needed.

Could be an expensive venture.

The other coaches can be locals, with the head being a foreign.

However power hitting coaches dont exist in pakistan or even in world cricket.

For that we will need baseball coaches from the mlb

 

[anonymous_guy]

These coaches won't come cheap I guess.

There are already Mohammad Yousuf and Shahid Aslam around as batting coaches, yet more such coaches are needed.

Could be an expensive venture.

Isn't Shahid Aslam with the National team?
[MENTION=9]Saj[/MENTION] can you please tell us about the background of Shahid Aslam and how do you rate him as a batting coach?

I have heard Rizwan talking about Shahid Aslam, and he mentioned how Shahid Aslam had helped him develop an off side shot which Rizwan would struggle playing initially.

 

[Bewal Express]

Again if coaches were a waste of money than all the teams i mentioned above wouldnt be wasting money on such appoitments.....

Thus, the decisions of 6 major cricketing boards means more than what posters who talked to a cricketer has to say.

Coaches make game plans, strategies and tactics.

One thing that you people forget is one side will win and the other side will lose.

Australia won world t20 and now might retain the ashes under langer....

England changed their batting style under the regime of their coach who also got a power hitting coach.

Rizwan became an opener in t20 due to misbah pushing him forward.

Sarfraz was performing well because he had moin khan as the coach at national level to help him.

Bob woolmer is still celebrated by pakistani fans....

Waseem akram worked with irfan pathan and everyone praised that transformation in his bowling.

Dave whatmore was celebrated coach due to the success he bought for sri lanka cricket.

Kirsteins success is also celebrated.

Stop acting as if you know better than the cricket boards who hire experts and financial advisors to help make decisions. Those people working in their management have got more experience. If they would hsd thought thay coaches were a waste of money, trust me, major teams wouls never have had hired coaches and dished money out. Especially in t20 leagues which are for a month.

The best coach for a player is always himself. All great players improve because they want to and work hard at their game and the board should provide the facilities and game and they get advice if they need it. Kohli had problems in Eng, what he do, yes spend time in the nets. Did Ravi help him technically? Lol.

I am not against all coaches, but you need specialists for particular types of batting. For example you may need a guy to help with playing spin like Babar does and he needs a guy to guide him but how will for example Misbah or Mickey Arthur help him? Misbah block block and hit approach was hardly something to aspire to.

Your point about strategy is fair but that should be a much wider role like Misbah was given and wasn't really suited to. England's decision was made by Eoin Morgan and what's his role, yes was/is the captain.
Coaches that we see looking concerned and earning big salaries are ineffective and are a waste of time.

 

[Major]

The best coach for a player is always himself. All great players improve because they want to and work hard at their game and the board should provide the facilities and game and they get advice if they need it. Kohli had problems in Eng, what he do, yes spend time in the nets. Did Ravi help him technically? Lol.

I am not against all coaches, but you need specialists for particular types of batting. For example you may need a guy to help with playing spin like Babar does and he needs a guy to guide him but how will for example Misbah or Mickey Arthur help him? Misbah block block and hit approach was hardly something to aspire to.

Your point about strategy is fair but that should be a much wider role like Misbah was given and wasn't really suited to. England's decision was made by Eoin Morgan and what's his role, yes was/is the captain.
Coaches that we see looking concerned and earning big salaries are ineffective and are a waste of time.

Just because a player had his technique doesnt mean he will ask the other player to follow the way he played. Many good coaches were not good enough for international cricket yet they were good teachers.

I cant comment Ravi as I dont follow Indian cricket and have no idea about what was happening their.

My point is, Rameez Raja is having the ideas that no coach needed for the international team, which I believe is just wrong.

Yes there are captains like Ponting, Misbah and Kohli who never needed coaches as they knew what the game plan was and how to approach the match. But still coaches are sometimes needed to someone who has authority on the captain somewhat if the captain is making very illogical decisions.

Babar Azam is not captaincy material to be very very very very honest. He needs a coach to be guiding him with plans. Captaincy isn't all about making the PCB making PR videos where the the captain does a scripted monologue which than gets posted on social media and fans comment wow, thats our captain, uff love his aggression......

Captaincy is about right field placements, keeping game plans in ur mind and utilizing the right options.

Babar Azam one thing i do credit is that when it comes to batting, he likes to experiment by sending Asif Ali in early etc. Something that Misbah never did as captain.

However, when it comes to bowling changes, Babar Azam is still bad. We lost the world t20 semi final because of him whether anyone agrees to it or not.

Thus in such situations, you need the coach to be there who can guide you.

A very small example,
2007 world t20 bowl out between Pakistan and India

Indian team in their training sessions did bowl out practice just in case. Upon the time of the bowl out, they got a 10 mins break. The players immediately started practicing by hitting one stump.

Pakistani dugout on that day; they had never done bowl out practise in the net sessions. During that 10 mins break, under Geoff Lawson, the team was practicing by bowling to 3 stumps.

At the end, India chosen the bowlers that had higher percentage of hitting the stumps in practise. While Pakistan decided to just give the ball to the bowlers and expect them to hit the wicekts irrespect if they had high number of hitting stumps or not.

Coach is needed at international level, it cannot be ignored. Especially for Babar Azam.

 

[finalfantasy7]

Don't think we should require a power hitting coach, pointless in my opinion , if we invest into sports science we will get the answer.

What we should be focussing on is, getting a all rounder coach - we have many players in our setup who are deemed as all rounders - in in reality thr bits and pieces- we haven't created a true all rounder since razzaq.

By getting more of a just a power hitting - were just going to create more of a slogger from players - already have far too many players who slog.

Hope we could try and get someone likes off Kallis / shane watson / andrew symonds - doesnt have to be a ex players who has top coaching badge, but more of a mentor position

 

[Mamoon]

There is a talent crisis in Pakistan, and coaching at the top level won’t fix anything.

We all know why that talent crisis exists and why Pakistan is not capable of producing a world class team in any format for a sustained period of time.

Unfortunately, the people who are in a position to take decision fail to recognize the problem. The mediocrity of Pakistan has never been diagnosed properly, maybe because we do not think we are mediocre in the first place.

This is why I keep saying the Pakistan is the most intellectually bankrupt cricket nation in the world. The vast majority of fans, players, coaches, selectors, executives, media personnel etc. have no clue what they are talking about.

They cannot identity Pakistan cricket’s problems and they have no solutions. Our cricket culture is rotten to the core and everyone is in pilot-mode. If we fluke a few wins together well and good, otherwise it is prayer time.

Whether we win or lose, no one knows why. They don’t have answers because they don’t have the intelligence to ask these questions, and this is why Pakistan does not have the capability to produce successful teams. It is a fundamental problem that hiring a mercenary on a short contract at the top level shall not fix.

 

[Bewal Express]

Just because a player had his technique doesnt mean he will ask the other player to follow the way he played. Many good coaches were not good enough for international cricket yet they were good teachers.

I cant comment Ravi as I dont follow Indian cricket and have no idea about what was happening their.

My point is, Rameez Raja is having the ideas that no coach needed for the international team, which I believe is just wrong.

Yes there are captains like Ponting, Misbah and Kohli who never needed coaches as they knew what the game plan was and how to approach the match. But still coaches are sometimes needed to someone who has authority on the captain somewhat if the captain is making very illogical decisions.

Babar Azam is not captaincy material to be very very very very honest. He needs a coach to be guiding him with plans. Captaincy isn't all about making the PCB making PR videos where the the captain does a scripted monologue which than gets posted on social media and fans comment wow, thats our captain, uff love his aggression......

Captaincy is about right field placements, keeping game plans in ur mind and utilizing the right options.

Babar Azam one thing i do credit is that when it comes to batting, he likes to experiment by sending Asif Ali in early etc. Something that Misbah never did as captain.

However, when it comes to bowling changes, Babar Azam is still bad. We lost the world t20 semi final because of him whether anyone agrees to it or not.

Thus in such situations, you need the coach to be there who can guide you.

A very small example,
2007 world t20 bowl out between Pakistan and India

Indian team in their training sessions did bowl out practice just in case. Upon the time of the bowl out, they got a 10 mins break. The players immediately started practicing by hitting one stump.

Pakistani dugout on that day; they had never done bowl out practise in the net sessions. During that 10 mins break, under Geoff Lawson, the team was practicing by bowling to 3 stumps.

At the end, India chosen the bowlers that had higher percentage of hitting the stumps in practise. While Pakistan decided to just give the ball to the bowlers and expect them to hit the wicekts irrespect if they had high number of hitting stumps or not.

Coach is needed at international level, it cannot be ignored. Especially for Babar Azam.

The example you gave of the Ind team in the 2007 WC needs to put in context. At that point no one took the T20 game seriously
A good team is led by a good Captain,good captains can plan things and it was interesting that Azhar Mahmood admitted PK dismissal of Kohli in the CT was because the Sky Sports team commentary team had pointed out that he was weak outside off stump. So instead a paying a fortune to the coaches, get Nas and Athers on the phone.

RR is right that we don't need expensive coaches that will not make any difference to our team.
We need a Director of cricket to give shape to the overall strategy of what type of cricket we are trying to play, plan A tours and U 19 cricket. He should hire coaches to help players with specific skills, if they need it. For example if Dahani needs a guy to help him bowl outswing then we should have someone to help him. What we don't need is a coach for the team because he won't make any difference to Dahani , where he stands in the net and says well bowled and gets paid a $150k for doing so, Because that's what most coaches have become.

As I have said often our players need to be paid better, have better facilities, better pitches and more matches. The talent will take care of the rest.

 

[Mamoon]

In cricket, the captain is equivalent to a manager in football while the coach is equivalent to a captain in football.

You need a strong captain (manager) in cricket (football). The coach (captain) is largely irrelevant and will make minimal difference.

If your captain is tactically poor and cannot carry his own weight in terms of performing on the pitch, coaching will not make any difference.

At best, a coach can complement a successful captain. It can never compensate for one.

 

[finalfantasy7]

In cricket, the captain is equivalent to a manager in football while the coach is equivalent to a captain in football.

You need a strong captain (manager) in cricket (football). The coach (captain) is largely irrelevant and will make minimal difference.

If your captain is tactically poor and cannot carry his own weight in terms of performing on the pitch, coaching will not make any difference.

At best, a coach can complement a successful captain. It can never compensate for one.

you don't, Australia are great at sports due to how great they are within sports science field, it has a great grass roots level - which creates many top level coaches - who operate at grass roots - uni level / pro level

 

[Savak]

There is a talent crisis in Pakistan, and coaching at the top level won’t fix anything.

We all know why that talent crisis exists and why Pakistan is not capable of producing a world class team in any format for a sustained period of time.

Unfortunately, the people who are in a position to take decision fail to recognize the problem. The mediocrity of Pakistan has never been diagnosed properly, maybe because we do not think we are mediocre in the first place.

This is why I keep saying the Pakistan is the most intellectually bankrupt cricket nation in the world. The vast majority of fans, players, coaches, selectors, executives, media personnel etc. have no clue what they are talking about.

They cannot identity Pakistan cricket’s problems and they have no solutions. Our cricket culture is rotten to the core and everyone is in pilot-mode. If we fluke a few wins together well and good, otherwise it is prayer time.

Whether we win or lose, no one knows why. They don’t have answers because they don’t have the intelligence to ask these questions, and this is why Pakistan does not have the capability to produce successful teams. It is a fundamental problem that hiring a mercenary on a short contract at the top level shall not fix.

Ramiz has talked about appointing these coaches at the academy, U13, U16, U19 and domestic teams where these coaches will have a stronger impact. He believes at the international level, it is all about the captain and the players taking responsibility themselves.

 

[Bewal Express]

Ramiz has talked about appointing these coaches at the academy, U13, U16, U19 and domestic teams where these coaches will have a stronger impact. He believes at the international level, it is all about the captain and the players taking responsibility themselves.

I hope RR sticks to his guns and uses the money saved to pay players better and increase the number of matches.

 

[MenInG]

Through a strategic partnership, the PCB will appoint highly qualified resident foreign coaches at the National High Performance Centre. These coaches will work very closely with 100 teenage cricketers to nurture and develop them and prepare them for future events, including the U19 PSL, which is marked for October 2022. These coaches will also be available to assist and help elite and emerging cricketers.

 

[cricf@n]

Any news who applied for the NHPC coaching? Because last date was 17 jan 2022.

 

[MenInG]

Stop the press...

We have found our power-hitting coach!

 

[Cricket Warrior]

Stop the press...

We have found our power-hitting coach!

Ifti be like "what the hell he is trying to teach me"

 

[mazkhan]

Hafeez actually took up golf whilst playing cricket and he said it helped him in his hitting ability In cricket

 

[BouncerGuy]

Hafeez improved his power-hitting during the last phase of is career. I don't know if he is the right guy to do this job. Iffi seems to be in shock at whatever Hafeez is telling him.

Iffi be like "I can hit bigger sixes than you"

 

[Cricket Warrior]

Hafeez improved his power-hitting during the last phase of is career. I don't know if he is the right guy to do this job. Iffi seems to be in shock at whatever Hafeez is telling him.

Iffi be like "I can hit bigger sixes than you"

Hafeez wasn't a power hitter he usually used his timing to get the job done.

For power hitting we need someone like Afridi who can teach these guys how to utilize strength for hitting big sixes.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Hafeez wasn't a power hitter he usually used his timing to get the job done.

For power hitting we need someone like Afridi who can teach these guys how to utilize strength for hitting big sixes.

Yes, he was never a power hitter but his last phase of career was superb. He smashed the bowlers and looked good too while playing big shots. But for Power-hitting drills, you will need someone who likes to hit the ball hard, Maybe like gayle or Afridi.