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Should Misbah-ul-Haq resign as Head Coach of Pakistan?

Should Misbah-ul-Haq resign as Head Coach?


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The loss to Zimbabwe - however we sugar coat it - is shocking and should not have happened.

Misbah needs to answer for this but should he resign from this position and move on? Let someone else see what they can do?
 
Absolutely. He has no planning and direction. I am seeing us going nowhere under him. Time to bring back Mickey. Give him till WC 2023
 
No coach resigns over one game. Also, Pakistan's result against England was hardly surprising and I doubt a different coach would have delivered better results.

I understand that the biggest complain against Misbah, the selector, has been his strategy to stick with experienced players. However, Misbah has been introducing younger players and ironically if he hadn't, i.e. if Hafeez, Malik, and Sarfaraz had played today, Pakistan would have breezed through.

In fact, you remove another senior player, Wahab, and Zimbabwe could have very well won this match by 50+ runs.
 
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Yes he has done too many embarrassments for us it's not just this one game during his whole tenure it's been a mess if he does not resign we should make a petition to have him leave lol
 
Iftikhar is solution for everything as per Misbah/Waqar.

Am fed up!
 
Misbah & Poor Man's Misbah (Ifti Chacha) need to go

Bring back Mickey!! PLEASE
 
Misbah has been a downgrade from Mickey, blame goes on pcb for getting such a negative thinking guy in , IMO every sensible fan knew what was coming & now all the fans know
I vote for Andy Flower or Arthur coming bk
 
Cannot expect Misbah to make the right decision.
 
There are 5 ICC trophies till 2023.

ICC test championship- 2
ICC T20 WC -2
ICC ODI WC - 1

Pakistan should give fair chance to Misbah and let him be coach till 2023. :D
 
forget the loss, things he has done otherwise or lack of proper things, he should resign, the loss is just the icing on his resignation cake...
 
I can see what Waqar is doing and actually has resulted in visible improvement in every bolwer. He has atleast identified a group of bolwers to work with and carry our attack for years to come.

I have no clue what Misbah is doing, there is no method, no vision, nothing whatsoever.
 
Sack misbah and get Andy flower or tom moody as the coach
History has always shown pakistan coaches resulting in disasters
 
No matter how many good things Wasim Khan does for our structure, but this appointment will keep on haunting us and it is sad because it casts a big veil on what he is doing behind the scenes.
 
While winning and loosing is part of the game, his selections, tactics and direction is far from acceptable to say the least.

Even Waqar Younis could have done a better job and thats saying something considering Waqar himself wasnt great.
 
No coach resigns over one game. Also, Pakistan's result against England was hardly surprising and I doubt a different coach would have delivered better results.

I understand that the biggest complain against Misbah, the selector, has been his strategy to stick with experienced players. However, Misbah has been introducing younger players and ironically if he hadn't, i.e. if Hafeez, Malik, and Sarfaraz had played today, Pakistan would have breezed through.

In fact, you remove another senior player, Wahab, and Zimbabwe could have very well won this match by 50+ runs.
Misbah has been responsible for losing 3-0 to a Sri Lanka Z side, and now this embarrassment. Remember, he was the one captain who successfully led us to a Test match defeat to Zimbabwe aswell.

SubhanAllah, what a CV in such a short time. I really hope the NZ tour gets cancelled. The dhulayi will be incredibly intense I'm certain.
 
Yes. A burden for the national team.
 
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Request mods to add poll, I'd wager it'll be the first time over 90% of PP would be unanimous in wanting the same thing.
 
Based on this match alone? No.

But yes he should resign.

He played 4 20 years old today , (musa didnt deserve).

He played khushdil and haider as well.

I think we should be ready to accept losses if we want to try upcoming talent.

Pakistan should have won the match with babar playing till 49th over. Its not misbahs fault that babar cant hit to save his life.

Yah the super over was disaster but again wasnt khushdil known for his hitting ability?
 
He needs to resign or get sacked.winning and losing is part of th game but he has no planning and hes not able to adapt to the demands of a cricket game further on his negative philosophy is proving to be way outdated
 
What decisions has he made right what is the percentage of right to wrong?

Resigning would be the right decision, but since he makes wrong decisions 100% of the time, hence, we cannot expect him to make the right decision.



Misbah just go :sendoff
 
Resigning would be the right decision, but since he makes wrong decisions 100% of the time, hence, we cannot expect him to make the right decision.



Misbah just go :sendoff

He wont resign he will have to get sacked by imran khan or wasim akram
 
Just let him have the tour to NZ.

That tour will be such an embarrassment that he will resign on his own.

Can't let a new coach start with such a tough assignment. Let us give Misbah and Azhar this one last hurrah.
 
It's on the cards to be fair. The PCB give him the boot from the chief selector's role and that means his head coach position is next to go. I have to admit I was wrong as I thought he would do a good job as coach as he seemed to know everything about Pakistan cricket.

But I guess you cant coach a proper international team like Pakistan without the experience of coaching another team for a few years.
 
[MENTION=9]Saj[/MENTION] please send this poll to Misbah I hope he'll have some self respect so he'll resign
 
I remember we still had a few people on this very forum who were writing long posts about he should be given time blah blah when Misbah forcefully took over the reigns.

The majority of us knew this was a dreadful appointment, yet we still had comments like the dark days of Mickey Arthur were over and the good times were about to roll.

Unfortunately, the longer Misbah remains, the more time is wasted. We already have wasted a whole year under his management.
 
Shout out to Mr. [MENTION=70355]CleverSir[/MENTION] for hoping for Misbah to stay. :djb
 
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US elections, Misbah out, and Liverpool :inti
 
Shout out to Mr. [MENTION=70355]CleverSir[/MENTION] for hoping for Misbah to stay. :djb

This match wasn't lost by Misbah or his coaching. Everyone here wants him to play young players. He did. They're not experienced. They lost. Hopefully the players learn from this.

I don't think Misbah is the long term answer. However, I'm not a knee-jerk decision maker either. He hasn't had a continuous good run at it. We've got a new domestic system that is starting to weed out the weaker players finally. I expect if we stick to it over the next 4-5 years we'll start to see some gems emerge. Until then we have to make do with the average players (apart from Babar and Shaheen) we have. No coach is going to make good lemonade from these un-ripe lemons. Once the system is putting out above average players, go get a coach who can raise their game higher.

I would like to see how Misbah does once selection is taken out of his hands. Besides, he has a massive contract for 3 years. Might as well give him a run. We're not winning the current edition of the World Test Championship. He's not doing any worse than Mickey Arthur or Mickey would have done, had he continued. We'd still have been beaten in Australia, and then beaten SL and Bangladesh in the home test series as we did. England could have gone either way.

In sports, there is something we call the "eye-test". It generally refers to the idea that a player "looks" like he belongs on that particular stage. Right now, we only have 3 players that pass the "eye test". Babar, Shaheen, and now Haider Ali. Possibly, M. Rizwan behind the stumps. Beyond that it is just average players showing nothing special. So yes, for now I'll stand by my vote to keep Misbah on. In the next season or two when our new domestic system starts to throw up some very good players (which I think we'll start to see) then I'd fire Misbah and go get a proven coach to take them to the next level. Until then we're not winning anything consistently even if we had Duncan Fletcher (from the mid 2000s), Tom Moody (from his SL days), or John Buchanan (of Australia).
 
What is wrong with Misbah?

Ever since Misbah has taken over as coach he has been focused on destroying the foundation of this side that Mickey Arthur built and its like he has no moments of reflection over the team he selects.

It has been well over a year now since he became coach and we have gone from being the No.1 ranked T20 side in the world to losing almost every T20I series we play. Besides often being devoid of logic, there seems to be no consistency in his selections. As a result, no patterns of success are allowed to develop we see the team trying and failing at establishing a new dynamic in every series. He also seems to place far too much trust on the Domestic T20 competition as a viable place for churning out international level talent.

It seems there is a complete failure on his part to realize what made Pakistan successful during Mickey Arthur's time as coach. One major aspect of it was Babar. Another was the two lynchpins of Pakistan's middle-order during Mickey's tenure as coach: Hafeez and Malik. And the reason they were successful was because of where they played. Hafeez at 3, Malik at 5-6. Playing Hafeez at No.4 today was a bad decision because it only decreased the effectiveness he would have had in the powerplay. Meanwhile Malik who had a knack for finishing the innings off in style has been dropped altogether.

Imad Wasim who is unquestionably Pakistan's best all-rounder in ODIs is being sent in at No.8 where there is absolutely no use for him. Iftikhar, the one player whose selection seemed inspired back in Australia hasn't even gotten a game yet. And then ofcourse he's playing Abdullah Shafique at No.3 and has banished Mohammad Amir altogether.

On top of that, after seeing Rizwan was not striking at the rate he is supposed to be striking at, Misbah should have pushed him back to 4-5. If it needs to happen push him down to 7, I don't care. But I just find it ludicrous that Rizwan gets to face 22 balls for his 22, while Imad gets a chance to face 5 balls in the entire innings.

And we have been witnessing these puzzling selections for a period of time now. From the recalls of Umar Akmal and Ahmed Shehzad last year, to the recall of Mohammad Irfan in Australia. And now packing the side with new faces.

It's not that playing new players is a bad thing. But there is a way in which it is done. You select a team of established players and give one or two new guys a chance. That way you're not putting immense pressure on them and easing their entrance into international cricket. When you send in Abdullah Shafique at No.3 you are asking alot of him. And then when he fails and bucks under pressure and the next guy that comes in is another youngster: Khusdil, he is almost doomed to fail.

Either Misbah needs to come to quickly realize that his philosophy is not just failing, but serving as a detriment to this team. Or he should be sent home.
 
Ever since Misbah has taken over as coach he has been focused on destroying the foundation of this side that Mickey Arthur built and its like he has no moments of reflection over the team he selects.

It has been well over a year now since he became coach and we have gone from being the No.1 ranked T20 side in the world to losing almost every T20I series we play. Besides often being devoid of logic, there seems to be no consistency in his selections. As a result, no patterns of success are allowed to develop we see the team trying and failing at establishing a new dynamic in every series. He also seems to place far too much trust on the Domestic T20 competition as a viable place for churning out international level talent.

It seems there is a complete failure on his part to realize what made Pakistan successful during Mickey Arthur's time as coach. One major aspect of it was Babar. Another was the two lynchpins of Pakistan's middle-order during Mickey's tenure as coach: Hafeez and Malik. And the reason they were successful was because of where they played. Hafeez at 3, Malik at 5-6. Playing Hafeez at No.4 today was a bad decision because it only decreased the effectiveness he would have had in the powerplay. Meanwhile Malik who had a knack for finishing the innings off in style has been dropped altogether.

Imad Wasim who is unquestionably Pakistan's best all-rounder in ODIs is being sent in at No.8 where there is absolutely no use for him. Iftikhar, the one player whose selection seemed inspired back in Australia hasn't even gotten a game yet. And then ofcourse he's playing Abdullah Shafique at No.3 and has banished Mohammad Amir altogether.

On top of that, after seeing Rizwan was not striking at the rate he is supposed to be striking at, Misbah should have pushed him back to 4-5. If it needs to happen push him down to 7, I don't care. But I just find it ludicrous that Rizwan gets to face 22 balls for his 22, while Imad gets a chance to face 5 balls in the entire innings.

And we have been witnessing these puzzling selections for a period of time now. From the recalls of Umar Akmal and Ahmed Shehzad last year, to the recall of Mohammad Irfan in Australia. And now packing the side with new faces.

It's not that playing new players is a bad thing. But there is a way in which it is done. You select a team of established players and give one or two new guys a chance. That way you're not putting immense pressure on them and easing their entrance into international cricket. When you send in Abdullah Shafique at No.3 you are asking alot of him. And then when he fails and bucks under pressure and the next guy that comes in is another youngster: Khusdil, he is almost doomed to fail.

Either Misbah needs to come to quickly realize that his philosophy is not just failing, but serving as a detriment to this team. Or he should be sent home.

Well said.

I am not sure what leverage Misbah has over PCB, but somehow he keeps getting positions of power without actually ever performing / proving himself.

He was a very poor Limited Overs player / captain and now coach / selector.

He is by far the worst thing to have happened to Pakistan Limited Overs cricket.

We need to get rid of him ASAP.

Mickey / Sarfaraz combo was working well. PCB tried to fix something that was not broken.

Misbah / Waqar need to go ASAP - if we are to have any hope for the next WC.
 
Just let him have the tour to NZ.

That tour will be such an embarrassment that he will resign on his own.

Can't let a new coach start with such a tough assignment. Let us give Misbah and Azhar this one last hurrah.

Still stand with what I said a month ago. They fired Azhar earlier then I predicted though.

The pressure will be a bit too much for the PCB.
 
For those who are thinking Misbah will resign by his own may be living in delusion. This guy is too shameless to accept his mistake/lack of skill. He has back up IK, Mani and many former players plus media.
 
Some of his combinations and selections have been awful to say the least. His extremes of selecting domestic infants and players close to even domestic retirements raises further set of questions. Examples of such cases have been put multiple times to manifest his ordinary selections.

Win or loss is part of any sport but, in any field the number of mistakes he has made in year, year and a half would have meant that person is either removed from the job or if management is really keen on retaining that person then he is moved into a backend position which doesnt impact the final output.
 
PCB is run by those oldies that used to say "agar Misbah na hota toh hum 230 bhi na kertay" - such is their knowledge (or lack of) of the game. Because of this, Misbah is thought of as a good player and tactician and is given these positions of power.

I'll repeat it again, Misbah is the worst thing, including the spot fixing fiasco, to happen to Pak cricket. His presence destroyed the DNA of Pak cricket and is now making sure there's no chance of a recovery.

And resignation is not a word in the world of Misbah ul Haq
 
Misbah clung on to his place as a player in every format, before he was basically pushed out.

He did the same in PSL as a player, even after agreeing to coach Islu when he stabbed them in the back at the 11th hour and went to another team as a player.

And now as coach, there is no way he will resign, even if Pakistan get whitewashed in New Zealand. He will make an excuse about the quarantine and Babar’s injury and a young team (Musa etc).
 
PCB is run by those oldies that used to say "agar Misbah na hota toh hum 230 bhi na kertay" - such is their knowledge (or lack of) of the game. Because of this, Misbah is thought of as a good player and tactician and is given these positions of power.

I'll repeat it again, Misbah is the worst thing, including the spot fixing fiasco, to happen to Pak cricket. His presence destroyed the DNA of Pak cricket and is now making sure there's no chance of a recovery.

And resignation is not a word in the world of Misbah ul Haq

Absolutely. It’s scary that over the past 15 months he’s become among the most powerful men in Pakistan cricket. However he took too much on and his constant failure with the Pakistan team and IU will be too much to ignore. He’s already been fired as a selector when it became abundantly clear there was no vision or consistency to his selections.
 
Absolutely. It’s scary that over the past 15 months he’s become among the most powerful men in Pakistan cricket. However he took too much on and his constant failure with the Pakistan team and IU will be too much to ignore. He’s already been fired as a selector when it became abundantly clear there was no vision or consistency to his selections.

There is no hope of a Pak cricket revival unless those that make these appointments understand the game beyond scorecards.

If Misbah's performances on field weren't seen for what they were, then we really can't expect the PCB to accurately assess his coaching performance either.

Despite losing us countless matches single handedly, I never heard Misbah self reflect or accept that he could've done things differently. He thinks that he is all knowing and better than the rest.

I was in the minority when I said that removing Mickey would be disastrous for us, but now it's all out in the open
 
There is no hope of a Pak cricket revival unless those that make these appointments understand the game beyond scorecards.

If Misbah's performances on field weren't seen for what they were, then we really can't expect the PCB to accurately assess his coaching performance either.

Despite losing us countless matches single handedly, I never heard Misbah self reflect or accept that he could've done things differently. He thinks that he is all knowing and better than the rest.

I was in the minority when I said that removing Mickey would be disastrous for us, but now it's all out in the open

Mickey had serious flaws but he was a breath of fresh air and he played a good part in the development of Babar for example. Misbah actually dropped him from IU after a couple of failures. And he was on record saying Shaheen shouldn’t play in the World Cup - before he ended up being our best bowler. The only consistency Misbah seems to have is his hate for youngsters - not counting Musa.

If we didn’t have Mickey I strongly believe Babar wouldn’t be the player he is today. He helped him establish his position at the top of the order and gave him complete confidence.

The very fact that Misbah played a hand in the removal of Mickey, stated clearly that it wasn’t a conflict of interest because he hadn’t applied for the coaching position... then proceeded to take the coaching position - is so blatantly ridiculous that I can’t believe he got away with it.
 
Should be sacked immediately we missed chance with Mickey
 
Needs to be booted because he won't resign.

There are three back to back white ball WC's starting next year and Misbah has no clue in these formats. What were PCB thinking hiring this clown?
 
Important to understand that Misbah leaving (even though it's important) won't act like a magic switch for our fortunes. Given where the component parts of the team is, in a development sense, the road to being formidable again will be long. That said, InshAllah we will be a good team again, I firmly believe that.
 
Well said.

I am not sure what leverage Misbah has over PCB, but somehow he keeps getting positions of power without actually ever performing / proving himself.

He was a very poor Limited Overs player / captain and now coach / selector.

He is by far the worst thing to have happened to Pakistan Limited Overs cricket.

We need to get rid of him ASAP.

Mickey / Sarfaraz combo was working well. PCB tried to fix something that was not broken.

Misbah / Waqar need to go ASAP - if we are to have any hope for the next WC.

It was patently obvious that Sarfraz had reached the end of the line both as captain and as player. On top of that his keeping was mediocre or poor and as captain he was hardly a model of excellence for anyone to emulate.

That said, there was absolutely no reason to sack Mickey. He had brought about a marked improvement in the side over the 3-4 year period and there was consistency and continuation with the selections aswell. The fact that Misbah was on the committee responsible for sending him home gives an even more dubious shade to the entire episode.
 
Why is it so hard to find a coach who can play 2 spinners when appropriate in asian conditions, find a way to play our 2nd best bowler in the team, not be awful in the media and not rely on bits and pieces players like Faheem? Just those things to start with please. Feel like any poster even here could do these things. Our bar is literally so low when it comes to coaches and yet they struggle to even pass that. Why can't we find a coach who can at least do the absolute basics.

Sack him and find someone else. Feel like the last professional coaches we had were Geoff Lawson and Dav Whatmore. It didn't work out for them sadly, but at least they seemed to conduct themselves properly and didn't get embroiled in nonsense.

Misbah won't resign though, coaches shouldn't have to resign. The board needs to sack him.
 
Misbah is someone who has had an atypical trajectory in his career. And his strength and fixation has always been on numbers. Misbah in his interviews multiple times has quoted his average and runs he accumulated (albeit selfishly sometimes) at the expense of his team. He has been fixated in the past about the number of 50's he has scored in a calendar year. He is also not a ruthless coach who does not make changes because he fears a player who loses confidence from that. His management style reminds me somewhat of Arsene wenger who had a set team and he would play that team regardless of the opposition. He does not adapt to the situation. He does not look at the trajectory of a certain player but the stats they accumulate. He also does not see age as a barrier of selection which is why his team consists of odd selections.
 
He had a standard team that he would play in Test matches as a captain with a certain Top 11 that never seemed to have change. Mickey arthur came as a coach vs England in 2016 and made two very good changes against England, bringing in Sohail Khan and Sami Aslam who both did very well as batsman and bowler respectively. Misbah does not look like a keen experimenter, and honestly is having real trouble finding a playing XI.
 
It was patently obvious that Sarfraz had reached the end of the line both as captain and as player. On top of that his keeping was mediocre or poor and as captain he was hardly a model of excellence for anyone to emulate.

That said, there was absolutely no reason to sack Mickey. He had brought about a marked improvement in the side over the 3-4 year period and there was consistency and continuation with the selections aswell. The fact that Misbah was on the committee responsible for sending him home gives an even more dubious shade to the entire episode.

Sarfaraz's individual performances were not good enough... However, there is no doubt that he has to be at the helm.. Best option available right now... Him and Mickey can keep the team together... bring out that fighting spirit and never-say-die attitude...

Misbah and Waqar are extremely over-rated... and cannot bring players together at all... poor leaders... worse coaches / selectors / managers...
 
Sarfaraz's individual performances were not good enough... However, there is no doubt that he has to be at the helm.. Best option available right now... Him and Mickey can keep the team together... bring out that fighting spirit and never-say-die attitude...

Misbah and Waqar are extremely over-rated... and cannot bring players together at all... poor leaders... worse coaches / selectors / managers...

Hardly. Sarfraz was a poor captain. Tactically, he had very little imagination. Under his captaincy Pakistan went downhill in tests after the Misbah years had lent the side a degree of respectability as a credible test side, and briefly even the number 1 team in the world. On top of that Sarfraz's behavior on-field used to be embarrassing and highly unbecoming of a captain of an international team. And last but not least, he was a passenger in the side for most of his captaincy as his batting was never the same once he became captain, and the keeping steadily got worse too.

Misbah may be a poor coach but he will go down as one of the greatest ever Pakistan captains for what he achieved with a mediocre side post 2010.
 
Hardly. Sarfraz was a poor captain. Tactically, he had very little imagination. Under his captaincy Pakistan went downhill in tests after the Misbah years had lent the side a degree of respectability as a credible test side, and briefly even the number 1 team in the world. On top of that Sarfraz's behavior on-field used to be embarrassing and highly unbecoming of a captain of an international team. And last but not least, he was a passenger in the side for most of his captaincy as his batting was never the same once he became captain, and the keeping steadily got worse too.

Misbah may be a poor coach but he will go down as one of the greatest ever Pakistan captains for what he achieved with a mediocre side post 2010.

Not for ODIs, he'll go down as one of the worst ever Pakistan captains for that.
 
Pakistan were on an uphill trend, specially in limited overs, before Misbah took over. Unfortunately we have gone way down (place where we were in 2015 after we got rid of Misbah). If Misbah is not removed then this trend will continue. He needs to be FIRED ASAP!
 
Shouldn’t have been appointed in the first place with zero experience.

I believe Younis Khan would do a better job than this idiot who speaks like he knows and can fix everything but in reality he knows and does nothing

Bring back Mickey , in the next 3 years there are 3 ICC trophies. Appointing Wasim as chief selector is the first good step , next should be removing Misbah-Waqar


If mickey or any foreign coach is not available then make Wasim Akram as head coach and continue Younis Khan as batting coach.
 
Hardly. Sarfraz was a poor captain. Tactically, he had very little imagination. Under his captaincy Pakistan went downhill in tests after the Misbah years had lent the side a degree of respectability as a credible test side, and briefly even the number 1 team in the world. On top of that Sarfraz's behavior on-field used to be embarrassing and highly unbecoming of a captain of an international team. And last but not least, he was a passenger in the side for most of his captaincy as his batting was never the same once he became captain, and the keeping steadily got worse too.

Misbah may be a poor coach but he will go down as one of the greatest ever Pakistan captains for what he achieved with a mediocre side post 2010.


Please list down his achievements

Be it any format , the only two players that he has given in his tenure of 5 years as captain was Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq both of them after playing 100 games still looks like they are playing their first ever series.

This guy is so poor that he can’t himself score runs at a good rate or make big daddy hundreds in Tests + the most defensive player that I have ever seen.
 
PCB is run by those oldies that used to say "agar Misbah na hota toh hum 230 bhi na kertay" - such is their knowledge (or lack of) of the game. Because of this, Misbah is thought of as a good player and tactician and is given these positions of power.

I'll repeat it again, Misbah is the worst thing, including the spot fixing fiasco, to happen to Pak cricket. His presence destroyed the DNA of Pak cricket and is now making sure there's no chance of a recovery.

And resignation is not a word in the world of Misbah ul Haq

That's hyperbole, there's many other things that've hurt us more but yes Misbah is an atrocious coach who never should've been appointed. He stabbed Mickey in the back who was promised an extension.

Can somebody at PCB please answer this - what coaching experience did Misbah possess before being appointed coach of Pakistan ?

Can anyone tell me if he even coached a school team ?!
 
Shouldn’t have been appointed in the first place with zero experience.

I believe Younis Khan would do a better job than this idiot who speaks like he knows and can fix everything but in reality he knows and does nothing

Bring back Mickey , in the next 3 years there are 3 ICC trophies. Appointing Wasim as chief selector is the first good step , next should be removing Misbah-Waqar


If mickey or any foreign coach is not available then make Wasim Akram as head coach and continue Younis Khan as batting coach.

Don't think we get single trophy under him but pretty sure we get whitewashed by bangladesh in tests 😄
 
Too much power is never good for one person. He should resign. Is damaging his legacy of being an honorable man and batter.

Waqar is the bigger culprit though. He has been stuffing his nose where it doesn't belong and is probably not helping galvanize the team either.
 
Please list down his achievements

Be it any format , the only two players that he has given in his tenure of 5 years as captain was Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq both of them after playing 100 games still looks like they are playing their first ever series.

This guy is so poor that he can’t himself score runs at a good rate or make big daddy hundreds in Tests + the most defensive player that I have ever seen.

If you think a player who averages 46 and has a higher strike rate than Rahul Dravid is too defensive for test cricket then maybe you shouldn't be watching test cricket in the first place.

As for his achievements:

- Captained Pakistan through an unbeaten series run in UAE that spanned 7 years, and began and ended with his captaincy. (Teams defeated: England, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies)
- Led Pakistan to the No.1 Test ranking
- Led Pakistan to a 2-2 draw in England
- Led Pakistan to a series win in New Zealand
- First Pakistan captain to ever win a series in West Indies
- Averaged 51.39 with the bat as captain over a 7 year period
- Scored fastest ever test century against Australia (so much for playing slow lol)
 
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If you think a player who averages 46 and has a higher strike rate than Rahul Dravid is too defensive for test cricket then maybe you shouldn't be watching test cricket in the first place.

As for his achievements:

- Captained Pakistan through an unbeaten series run in UAE that spanned 7 years, and began and ended with his captaincy. (Teams defeated: England, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies)
- Led Pakistan to the No.1 Test ranking
- Led Pakistan to a 2-2 draw in England
- Led Pakistan to a series win in New Zealand
- First Pakistan captain to ever win a series in West Indies
- Averaged 51.39 with the bat as captain over a 7 year period
- Scored fastest ever test century against Australia (so much for playing slow lol)

Some very good stats. Misbah has the brains to turn this test outfit into a world beater we should give him the opportunity. Limited overs is another story altogether. You just know he will kill all progress with his reverse sweeps.
 
Misbah Out!!!

As much as this looks like one- this isn't a knee jerk reaction.
Misbah was appointed without having ever coached a professional team outside of franchise cricket with no track record or credentials.

He had a conflict of interests as he sat on the 2 man panel voting Micky out and consequently hijacked the role last minute from Micky as Micky believed he had been promised the role.

Since Misbah and his team have taken over- Pak have looked hapless with no ideas in terms of strategy , outlook and planning. The batsmen look scared, and the fielding is the worst I have seen for a very long time. The bowlers have no plans but to run in and bowl and the professionalism and planning of this team is like a village side

The hopelessness and negativity is very reminiscent of Misbah as a captain and I think its fair to say if Misbah wants the Pak job he should back to Sui Gas and coach them in some first class tournaments.

Misbahs tenure against top 8 teams is as below:

SL at home
Won Odi 2-0
Lost T20s 3-0
Won tests 1-0

Aus away
Lost T20s to aus 2-0
Lost tests 2-0


England away
Lost 1-0 tests to England (weather affected)
Tied T20 series

NZ away
Lost T20s 2-1

We are turning into glorified minnows- very similar to his white ball record when we were on par with Zimbabwe.

MISBAH OUT
 
We have being getting trashed in Aus since the 90’s. Even when the teams were full of stars. So what did you expect from this lot? No coach will be able to change that.

Now same goes for tours to NZ & SA.

This coaching set up is awful but so are some the players. Absolutely useless. The lot of them.
 
Keep him

I said from day 1 he was terrible
same with Waqar who has failed time after time and still collecting easy paychecks

pakistan cricket is a shamble and has been for years
MA was actually decent but you hilariously people thought Misbah was the savior

no bowling
no batting

Rizwan.Shan.Azhar.Shafiq.

all useless yet fans love them all thinking they are amazing for their 1 out of 5 games decent performances
 
HE IS LBW
HE IS CAUGHT BEHIND
HE IS BOWLED
HE IS RUN OUT
HE HAS HIT HIS OWN WICKET
HE HAS POPPED THE BALL IN AIR AND EASILY TAKEN IN 15 YARD CIRCLE
Except caught at boundary he is being softly dismissed any possible way, ball never crossed 15 yard circle.
Lmao this clown need to go along with Waqar.
The only person I seen taking up Pakistan cricket coach has passed away I don’t know if PCB even has any option or any coach that would want to clear up this mess.
 
He is going nowhere until 2023 wc

I'm praying for a performance related break clause in Misbah's contract. If the PCB legal team did not include such a clause for such an inexperienced coach, then I don't know what to say...
 
Misbah isn’t going anywhere, which is why he left his role as Islamabad coach. PCB will be backing him till the end of the WT20. Hopefully, I’m wrong.
 
One of the strong reasons Misbah was hired, was to cut the cost, which in theory, makes sense as we have an army of 900+ nalaiq and nikammay employees at PCB.

However, we rolled off the wrong head. There are perhaps at least 500 other employees in PCB that can be fired to cut the cost, but since almost everyone gets hired into PCB due to connections, nepotism or political based powers, you can't touch them.

Mickey was the easiest one to fire so they took an easy shot.

If PCB well and truly wants save money AND get an effective batting coach at the same time, then they should look for a school level batting coach from India.

Trust me, we don't need a big name and we don't need to spend hundred and thousands on yearly salary.

Those school level Indian coaches are perfectly right for our national level team players. Those coaches can correct and teach our players, THE VERY BASICS foundation of batting techniques.

You watch some of those Indian junior school level batsman, their posture, their footwork, their back lift, their bat speed, their footwork, their head position and their focus is better than many in our national side.
Our batsmen do not know the very basics of batting.

Again, if we need to start fixing it, we need an Indian school level batting coach. We need to learn batting by start playing like Indian school level kids.
Our batting culture in the domestic atmosphere is totally different. We simply don't know how to bat.
 
As much as this looks like one- this isn't a knee jerk reaction.

Lol Misbah has no supporters on this forum at all from what i can see. PPers have mostly seen the writing on the wall since day 1.

The shameless Wasim Khan pulled all manner of favours for him, so we are all just waiting for him to finally admit he made a huge mistake giving a rookie such a big job.
 
One of the strong reasons Misbah was hired, was to cut the cost, which in theory, makes sense as we have an army of 900+ nalaiq and nikammay employees at PCB.

However, we rolled off the wrong head. There are perhaps at least 500 other employees in PCB that can be fired to cut the cost, but since almost everyone gets hired into PCB due to connections, nepotism or political based powers, you can't touch them.

Mickey was the easiest one to fire so they took an easy shot.

If PCB well and truly wants save money AND get an effective batting coach at the same time, then they should look for a school level batting coach from India.

Trust me, we don't need a big name and we don't need to spend hundred and thousands on yearly salary.

Those school level Indian coaches are perfectly right for our national level team players. Those coaches can correct and teach our players, THE VERY BASICS foundation of batting techniques.

You watch some of those Indian junior school level batsman, their posture, their footwork, their back lift, their bat speed, their footwork, their head position and their focus is better than many in our national side.
Our batsmen do not know the very basics of batting.

Again, if we need to start fixing it, we need an Indian school level batting coach. We need to learn batting by start playing like Indian school level kids.
Our batting culture in the domestic atmosphere is totally different. We simply don't know how to bat.

Misbah is paid 2.8 million rupees a month-this wasn't a cost cutting decision.
 
We have being getting trashed in Aus since the 90’s. Even when the teams were full of stars. So what did you expect from this lot? No coach will be able to change that.

Now same goes for tours to NZ & SA.

This coaching set up is awful but so are some the players. Absolutely useless. The lot of them.

Dude. Be reasonable. Nobody expects us to win against NZ in NZ in 2020, but the manner of defeat is something that is quickly becoming a Misbah trademark.

Whatever anyone says we can quantify how this team has gone backwards under Misbah and the list of humiliation keeps on growing.
 
One of the strong reasons Misbah was hired, was to cut the cost, which in theory, makes sense as we have an army of 900+ nalaiq and nikammay employees at PCB.

However, we rolled off the wrong head. There are perhaps at least 500 other employees in PCB that can be fired to cut the cost, but since almost everyone gets hired into PCB due to connections, nepotism or political based powers, you can't touch them.

Mickey was the easiest one to fire so they took an easy shot.

If PCB well and truly wants save money AND get an effective batting coach at the same time, then they should look for a school level batting coach from India.

Trust me, we don't need a big name and we don't need to spend hundred and thousands on yearly salary.

Those school level Indian coaches are perfectly right for our national level team players. Those coaches can correct and teach our players, THE VERY BASICS foundation of batting techniques.

You watch some of those Indian junior school level batsman, their posture, their footwork, their back lift, their bat speed, their footwork, their head position and their focus is better than many in our national side.
Our batsmen do not know the very basics of batting.

Again, if we need to start fixing it, we need an Indian school level batting coach. We need to learn batting by start playing like Indian school level kids.
Our batting culture in the domestic atmosphere is totally different. We simply don't know how to bat.

I thought Misbah as head coach was getting paid the same as Mickey Arthur

That peeved me off the most! How does the guy get a same remuneration deal as a international coach who now has coached 3 Test nations (before Sri Lanka) whereas Misbah had only coached Islamabad United for 1 season prior to his appointment
 
HE IS LBW
HE IS CAUGHT BEHIND
HE IS BOWLED
HE IS RUN OUT
HE HAS HIT HIS OWN WICKET
HE HAS POPPED THE BALL IN AIR AND EASILY TAKEN IN 15 YARD CIRCLE
Except caught at boundary he is being softly dismissed any possible way, ball never crossed 15 yard circle.
Lmao this clown need to go along with Waqar.
The only person I seen taking up Pakistan cricket coach has passed away I don’t know if PCB even has any option or any coach that would want to clear up this mess.


The MOST HILAROUS RUN OUT IN THE HISTORY of cricket goes to him as well.

He was running towards the bowler's end and could've easily made it but he used his bat to plonk it in the ground and use it as a pole vault jump to get airborne to avoid the ball being thrown at the stump.
So his bat was stuck in the ground just outside the crease, and both of his feet were inside the crease area but in the air... and the ball hit the stumps. :rp
 
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