These guys are there in England just to enjoy their time. Have not seen a single change in the strategy and approach from their last series. Gary should be taking notes of these things.
Gary is leaving after this cup.
As I said, revive Bradman from the dead and have him as a coach, it won't do Jack.
Kristen is here for his paycheck.
First ask yourself in 2017 here are the changes mickey made based of PSL
1) Asked fakhar to open and experimented with 2 left hand opening combo which is unheard of in international.
2) Asked babar a realtive newbie to bat at no 3 in all formats.
3) was infavour or spin allrounders. Although tbf mickey is kinda at fault for asking shafab to develop his batting. Dude didn't like specialist spinners, only wanted hafeez, malik, Haris sohail, Shadab etc, he wanted spinner allrounders.
Now when mickey came back, did he make any changes? Nope, because all suggestions of taking abrar and imad as hafeez suggested and taking saim ayub as misbah suggested and a few more changes were LOL Noped by Babar.
Nothing will change under Bobby irrespective of the coach as this is a dosti yaari club that loves vacation trips. Their playing cricket like Oman atm, aka part time workers who are in for the thrill. Oman players only want a paycheck and a trip to USA, Cricket is 2nd as they know they ain't winning. Pakistan is shockingly following the same philosophy.
Look at how degenerative babar's responses are, " We lost because Ireland attacked us" Like yeah that's how cricket is played, its a vs battle?
In case of wanna know, Usman Khan, Imad, Abrar, Fakhar, Saim and Amir are forced inclusions. Otherwise if Bobby had his way they'd be booted.
1) Usman is in because of the UAE threat, but soon usman khan will be booted out as UAE visa has been discarded now so PCB is not under any pressure for being blamed at letting a top scorer of psl escape their grasp.
2) Abrar is in because Babar got hunilated for his nawaz tu hai mera match winner and he'll get sacked instantly if he pulls his abrar stunt again although not like he's playing him lol.
3) Fakhar is in due to X factor rep, Babar has tried to axe fakhar multiple times though, in 2022 wc he did and in 2023 he would have done so had fakhar not made 4 centuries in the calender year, 4 big ones at that. But he has desperately tried to replace Abdullah who's a friend of Bobby and got pushed up despite only 7 List A's.
4) Imad and Amir are in again due to the social media drama and babar is trying to get the heat off and play the facade of we are all friends now.