Titan24
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I believe to be a consistently good nation in any sport a system needs to be in place which not only produces good players but also good coaches and that is the only way to attain long term sustainable success.
I am not sure many know but "Khan Mohammad" who himself was a fast bowler and helped Paksitan's early cricket success 1950's was someone who had a role in nurturing few of the legendary bowlers produced by Pakistan including Imran Khan and Wasim Akram. I am giving his example to show how much of a difference one good cricketing mind and coach can make to a sporting legacy of a country.
Lets have a look at few of the most successful cricket teams in recent times the list includes Ind, Eng, NZ, and Australia. Eng is an exception but they also realize they need to produce local coaches as mentioned Andrew Strauss (The director of cricket for England and Wales cricket board), all other three have achieved huge success under their local coaches which came through their domestic system.
Yes Ravi Shastri isnt always hailed as a great coach by Indian fans and is not someone who came through a regular system but if we go a bit deeper and see the support staff in indian dressing room it includes Bharat Arun, Sanjay Bangar and Ramakrishnan Sridhar. Bowling has improved incredibly under Bharat Arun in terms of consistency while fielding has also been pretty decent not leaving a lot to be desired. Batting coach of a power house in batting was always gonna be under a lot of pressure but Banagar did reasonable job too. So India which was not known for producing good coaches have did decently in last few years in that department and have a structure in place which is making sure of that.
NZ went to the finals of CWC 2015 under the coaching of Mike Hessen and are carrying extraordinary home test record and have achieved some memorable victories away as well while same is the case with their ODI team for some years now which is doing pretty well and recently reached the CWC 2019 final too under another local coach which came through their system Gary Stead.
Meanwhile Australia which looked like loosing its edge in world cricket post 2011 WC found some of their mojo back after the appointment of Darren Lehman another local coach who lead them to CWC 2015 trophy and has been replaced by another local coach Justin Langer in 2018 who is still working towards leaving his own legacy.
So for Pakistan tenure of Mickey Arther, Grant Flower, Azhar Mehmood and Grant Bradburn has ended and discussions have been going on for sometime now regarding who should fill these vacant positions.
Everybody in the administration and fans realize that we dont have a lot of options in terms of local coaches with proven credentials because the domestic system has not only struggled in judging the credentials of local players and producing players in a consistent manner but also in terms of producing local coaches that are good enough to eventually graduate to national teams.
Having a production mechanism for coaches in place not only ensures an inflow of backroom staff at national level but also makes sure of good standard of caches at junior and domestic level which is really important as slight adjustments to techniques, fitness patterns and mindset can make or break players and thus effect the national level as well.
New domestic structure is being put in Place where in QAE we will be seeing 6 regional teams filled with top players from around the country however PCB needs to make sure that they put time in selecting coaches for those associations as well and just like they are focusing on 2nd xi and junior teams that they focus on putting a structure and mechanism in place for coaches at each level too.
Having a proper structure of coaches is really important for the sustainability of the overall cricketing structure in the long run.
I am not sure many know but "Khan Mohammad" who himself was a fast bowler and helped Paksitan's early cricket success 1950's was someone who had a role in nurturing few of the legendary bowlers produced by Pakistan including Imran Khan and Wasim Akram. I am giving his example to show how much of a difference one good cricketing mind and coach can make to a sporting legacy of a country.
Lets have a look at few of the most successful cricket teams in recent times the list includes Ind, Eng, NZ, and Australia. Eng is an exception but they also realize they need to produce local coaches as mentioned Andrew Strauss (The director of cricket for England and Wales cricket board), all other three have achieved huge success under their local coaches which came through their domestic system.
Yes Ravi Shastri isnt always hailed as a great coach by Indian fans and is not someone who came through a regular system but if we go a bit deeper and see the support staff in indian dressing room it includes Bharat Arun, Sanjay Bangar and Ramakrishnan Sridhar. Bowling has improved incredibly under Bharat Arun in terms of consistency while fielding has also been pretty decent not leaving a lot to be desired. Batting coach of a power house in batting was always gonna be under a lot of pressure but Banagar did reasonable job too. So India which was not known for producing good coaches have did decently in last few years in that department and have a structure in place which is making sure of that.
NZ went to the finals of CWC 2015 under the coaching of Mike Hessen and are carrying extraordinary home test record and have achieved some memorable victories away as well while same is the case with their ODI team for some years now which is doing pretty well and recently reached the CWC 2019 final too under another local coach which came through their system Gary Stead.
Meanwhile Australia which looked like loosing its edge in world cricket post 2011 WC found some of their mojo back after the appointment of Darren Lehman another local coach who lead them to CWC 2015 trophy and has been replaced by another local coach Justin Langer in 2018 who is still working towards leaving his own legacy.
So for Pakistan tenure of Mickey Arther, Grant Flower, Azhar Mehmood and Grant Bradburn has ended and discussions have been going on for sometime now regarding who should fill these vacant positions.
Everybody in the administration and fans realize that we dont have a lot of options in terms of local coaches with proven credentials because the domestic system has not only struggled in judging the credentials of local players and producing players in a consistent manner but also in terms of producing local coaches that are good enough to eventually graduate to national teams.
Having a production mechanism for coaches in place not only ensures an inflow of backroom staff at national level but also makes sure of good standard of caches at junior and domestic level which is really important as slight adjustments to techniques, fitness patterns and mindset can make or break players and thus effect the national level as well.
New domestic structure is being put in Place where in QAE we will be seeing 6 regional teams filled with top players from around the country however PCB needs to make sure that they put time in selecting coaches for those associations as well and just like they are focusing on 2nd xi and junior teams that they focus on putting a structure and mechanism in place for coaches at each level too.
Having a proper structure of coaches is really important for the sustainability of the overall cricketing structure in the long run.
