Ten suggestions to improve Pakistan cricket

[fazleefridi]

TEN POINTS TO IMPROVE

1.Bring proper system from school cricket, U-15, U-19, U-23.

2.Hire qualified coaches at Grass roots.

3.Prepare pitches for scores of 320+ in domestics.

4.Use kookabura balls in domestics.

5.Play deserving players at deserving places in domestics(Don't play TTF's or Non deserving players. Eg.Tanvir batting above Shadab in domestics and Arsal sheikh being in the playing 11).

6.Get rid of TTF's/Undeserving seniors.

7.Stop playing in the UAE.

8.Fitness should be the first and foremost criteria for selection.

9.Make it clear. Play Modern game, or quit & No selfish knocks.

10.REMOVE FEAR OF FAILURE.

Out of 10 points.

5 are in domestics. Out of remaining 5, 4 can be used both in domestics and international(with the exception of playing cricket in UAE)

When ur domestics are anything, but rubbish, you can still play cricket.
But forget to be in the top 5.

You can even be ranked 6 in ODI's. But you can't climb above that

 

[fazleefridi]

And worth to mention that out of 10 points, just top 4 require financial investment.

1.To bring proper cricket system from School cricket to U-23
2.Hiring qualified coaches at grass roots.
3.Preparing pitches
4.Using kookabura balls.

And as far as my knowledge is concerned, PCB can easily afford this.

But if they think it's waste of money and rather think of filling their pockets and to use on their own trips.

Then so be it.

I from India, can just wish for the betterment of pakistan cricket, as the world of cricket needs them to be competitive.

 

[Syed1]

Our cricket system can only improve if the people running the show are hired on merit not because they kissed the right set of feet.

Nothing is going to change till Sethi/Sheri at the helm and Ganja is in the PM house.

Good suggestions but for implementation of these we need people who are genuinely interested in improving our cricket rather than going on fully funded foreign tours.

 

[khurram39]

If they just do minimum effort and follow the rules and clear the selection criteria and prepare good pitches for batting results will automatically come.

Determine Priority for future and clearly stated to the teams and regions and make it sure it will be followed. Simple i think

Not much investment, Not much bothering

 

[moghul]

Good suggestions.

Particularly this culture of preferring TTF seniors over promising youngsters should be stopped, at domestic level and national level. Misbah's story should not be repeated even in future.

 

[Kianig89]

1. Select Players on Merit

2.Give them a fair chance

3. Don't forget above two points

 

[Pete Rose]

Please, no more of these 'select on merit' slogans.

Concretely:
They should not schedule one day tournaments in winter in the north of the country: our of 31 games in the region odi tournament, 10 were called off for bad weather, and 5 were decided on duckwoth Lewis. No scores of 300 till the last three game shifted to Karachi

Secondly: we should not have so many useless unrelated odi tournaments: there is no consistency in selection or performance of the players across tournaments.

Lastly, specifically for list A: no batsman should be considered for selection if they have a strike rate lower than 90

 

[MMHS]

Some good suggestions, but two critical ones missing - PAK must have to bring down the average age of every team - Domestic FC/List A teams, PSL teams, PAK Test, ODI & T20 teams.

There is an unanimous feeling that, lack of talent/options are the reason why PCB is rotating same players at every level- which is absolute rubbish. Whatever I have seen in IPL this year, every team, despite having some of the world's best batsmen around are playing local guys in top 3/4, and many of these guys are not even Indian Internationals, neither posses sterling figures.

If I go by names, players like Hooda, Mandeep, Rana, Agarwal, Manish Pandey, Manan Vhora, WP Saha, Vishnu Vinod, Tare, Samson, Pant, Rahul Tripati, Rawan Negi .... have batted in top 4/5 regularly & I can bet half of these players are almost unknown to PP. And, these players are playing ahead of players Smith, Miller, Maxwell,ABm Stokes ... which indicates that IPL teams are trying to promote Indian youngsters, encouraging them to go for their shots early & make a mark for their career. I have seen same in BPL & Dhaka League as well - kids like Saif, Afif, Azman are given chance to bat in top 3 - it's the seniors or foreigners who are pushed down in batting order. On contrary, IU brought Rafatullah & kept Talat warming bench for first 6 matches after a stunning domestic season.

This is just one indicative example - unless it changes like what was in 70s & 80s (when players by official 18/19 made their mark solid enough for a County or English League contract), I don't think it's going improve much. A players best years are biological 23-35 with pacers & WKs in lower ebb, which ideally should pull down a domestic squad's age around 27-28; for PAK, it should be 25-27 - now it's around 30-32 level in club cricket.

2nd one is the duration of FC matches - cricket is fundamentally a slow game, where skills are learned over lengthy match condition. PAK won't break among to 5 teams of a cricket world seriously played by 6/7 countries by playing those 250 over jokes. Unless FC matches are prolonged to at least 390 - 400 overs, batting temperament won't improve, neither the bowling skills. Hitting a stunning boundary or bowling a 150KM thunderbolt doesn't make one great cricketer - rather it makes when one can stay on wicket for 10 hours to hits those stunning boundaries selectively & when bowlers can work out these quality batsmen. Some of the PAK domestic FC matches doesn't last long 10 hours these days ................

 

[Haz95]

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[Arsalan Pro]

More then anything else, we need professionals in our board who know about cricket and are interested in betterment of it rather than their paychecks.

 

[Hasan123]

Good suggestions. The profit made from the PSL should be invested in domestic cricket.

 

[ask_analyse_act]

domestic cricket is not that bad... babar, hussain talat, shadab, usama mir, haris sohail, hasan ali are all from the same domestics... there needs to be consistent chances for youngsters even if they perform poorly for the first 10 games, for seniors one bad series, should be back to domestics. unfortunately it is other way around for pak..int'l arena is the best platform for any youngster to get polished, as the domestic is not that competitive... Talents with hardwork will swim, rest will sink... in domestics, make youngsters the captain, which they did in this upcoming one day cup is a breath of fresh air..enough of tanvir, kamran and latifs being the captains... This should be applied in the PSL too, MISBAH is the only senior who is a captain but he will not play the PSL3 I guess rest are all foreigners as captain except Sarfraz......