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Syed1 said:
If I was performing this bad at my day job, I would voluntarily resign and leave. Seems like this trio is special level of beghairat.
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Agree. Atleast they should feel some pity for us fans and embarrassing our country in cricket.
 
The problem in our country is the mentality of our people. You take these 3 away and our country will embarrass itself in some other scandal. Pakistani people are jahil, and as much I hate to see us lose, I’ll give one credit to misbah and that is under his previous captaincy and now him being coach, our players haven’t made a fool of themselves from a non-cricketing point of view. And to be honest, if I was Imran Khan and being the prime minister, I couldn’t care less if we lost as long as my country keeps its respect and I can bring international cricket back to Pakistan. This is why we have Misbah and Azhar.... no one else to blame that the people of Pakistan.
 
Misbah and Wasim are political appointment by Imran Khan.

Misbah have 2 years left
30 × 24 = 720 lakh wow
 
Azrim_91 said:
The problem in our country is the mentality of our people. You take these 3 away and our country will embarrass itself in some other scandal. Pakistani people are jahil, and as much I hate to see us lose, I’ll give one credit to misbah and that is under his previous captaincy and now him being coach, our players haven’t made a fool of themselves from a non-cricketing point of view. And to be honest, if I was Imran Khan and being the prime minister, I couldn’t care less if we lost as long as my country keeps its respect and I can bring international cricket back to Pakistan. This is why we have Misbah and Azhar.... no one else to blame that the people of Pakistan.
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What are you even talking about. Just a couple of years ago, same team not only kept their respect but also competed exceptionally well in the series.


This "restoring respect" crap is the reason why Misbah has involved in one capacity or the other since 2010.
 
Azrim_91 said:
The problem in our country is the mentality of our people. You take these 3 away and our country will embarrass itself in some other scandal. Pakistani people are jahil, and as much I hate to see us lose, I’ll give one credit to misbah and that is under his previous captaincy and now him being coach, our players haven’t made a fool of themselves from a non-cricketing point of view. And to be honest, if I was Imran Khan and being the prime minister, I couldn’t care less if we lost as long as my country keeps its respect and I can bring international cricket back to Pakistan. This is why we have Misbah and Azhar.... no one else to blame that the people of Pakistan.
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It's people like you who are a the problem
Just because you like a particular person you won't blame him and try to shift focus elsewhere. And what respect crap you on about. Sick and tired of this crap from people like you who defend Misbah no matter what
 
Pakistan societies and institution are rotten completely. If it is education, political or sports all are just looking for ways of how to make maximum money, people are blaming other but most of the people is our society are looking for Short cuts they want to earn maximum legally or illegally doesn't matter.

Misbah, Waqar and Azhar are belongs to this society, they don't have any self respect, they just want to make maximum money.

I am not qualified for lecture in College and so I never ever applied for it but Misbah was made coach without any experience and he doesn't even hesitate about it.

He is the biggest Beghairat of Pakistan history.
 
Syed1 said:
What are you even talking about. Just a couple of years ago, same team not only kept their respect but also competed exceptionally well in the series.


This "restoring respect" crap is the reason why Misbah has involved in one capacity or the other since 2010.
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Exactly this team under Mickey and Sarfraz few years ago played well and drew the series but no its only Misbah who been the saviour since 2010 for Misbah fans. It was under Afridi we got to semi final in 2011. Sarfraz winning champions trophy with Mickey and number 1 in T20. But no its all about Misbah apparently.
These lot will defend him no matter what it's pathetic.
 
Syed1 said:
This "restoring respect" crap is the reason why Misbah has involved in one capacity or the other since 2010.
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So more or less, Misbah has been a massive power player in PCT for 10+ years now. I can't think of another player or administrator who had that kind of power in the PCB for that long of a continuous period. Not even Imran Khan
 
coy0607 said:
So more or less, Misbah has been a massive power player in PCT for 10+ years now. I can't think of another player or administrator who had that kind of power in the PCB for that long of a continuous period. Not even Imran Khan
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And to top it of he forced his way as coach. Was in committee that sacked Mickey Arthur and then resigned right after to become coach. And even then he was offered the Under 19s job which he refused and pressurised them that he only Wants to ve head coach of national team. Not only that he becomes selector too. Biggest power man who is continuing to embarrass us. It was him who recommended his friend Azhar Ali for ODI captaincy when he retired and his buddy went on to embarrass us against Bangladesh by getting whitewashed. Then he makes his test captain as soon as he becomes head coach when Azhar Ali has been on decline for past years.
 
Misbah
Waqar
Mushtaq

These three have been consistently appointed to important positions over the last 10 years. The results and the legacy they’ve left is for all to see, yet they are consistently given more responsibilities. Why?
 
Pakistan cricket will never move forward as long as Misbah is here.

I literally thanked God when he retired, didn't know he will be back within two years to torture us again.
 
To me and a lot of others on this board, this isn't a major surprise. We had an uneasy feeling in the pit of our stomachs when Misbah was appointed or shall I say when he barged into PCB headquarters and grabbed the CS and HC roles for himself.

The selections, the strategies and the statements are all the ones you'd expect from Misbah. Unfortunately, these are not good enough to win Pakistan cricket matches but sadly the opposite is true where we are utterly humiliated when up against any decent opposition.
 
Can’t stand anything to do with Misbah and Waqar...
 
coy0607 said:
So more or less, Misbah has been a massive power player in PCT for 10+ years now. I can't think of another player or administrator who had that kind of power in the PCB for that long of a continuous period. Not even Imran Khan
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Which is why this is being looked at with great suspicion. It all seems too fishy to me. I get that PCB have made blunders aren't the most competent cricket board around but even I have doubts on whether they are that incompetent to appoint an ex-player with no prior relevant experience and just a level 2 coaching qualification.

We know Misbah has connections that reach well beyond the authority of the PCB.
[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] I'm not trying to defend Wasim Khan but before you blame him, we need to know for certain who appointed Misbah.
 
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Azrim_91 said:
The problem in our country is the mentality of our people. You take these 3 away and our country will embarrass itself in some other scandal. Pakistani people are jahil, and as much I hate to see us lose, I’ll give one credit to misbah and that is under his previous captaincy and now him being coach, our players haven’t made a fool of themselves from a non-cricketing point of view. And to be honest, if I was Imran Khan and being the prime minister, I couldn’t care less if we lost as long as my country keeps its respect and I can bring international cricket back to Pakistan. This is why we have Misbah and Azhar.... no one else to blame that the people of Pakistan.
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This is perhaps the worst post I have ever read on PP.

Misbah isn't exemplary with his conduct and behaviour as you're trying to make him out to be. For example he has been giving sarcastic responses to whenever he's been asked to justify his selections.

It's ironic that you bring up "I couldn’t care less if we lost as long as my country keeps its respect" because it was only last year when he decided to oust Mickey Arthur (when he was a committee member) to advance his self-interests. The words "Misbah"and "respect" should never be mentioned in the same sentence.

It's this type of mentality that is holding Pakistan back, whether it be in cricket or in other affairs not the "jahil log" that you have in your mind.
 
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topspin said:
Which is why this is being looked at with great suspicion. It all seems too fishy to me. I get that PCB have made blunders aren't the most competent cricket board around but even I have doubts on whether they are that incompetent to appoint an ex-player with no prior relevant experience and just a level 2 coaching qualification.

We know Misbah has connections that reach well beyond the authority of the PCB.

[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] I'm not trying to defend Wasim Khan but before you blame him, we need to know for certain who appointed Misbah.
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According to Mickey a phone call changed everything and led to a different decision. Before that call Mickey was promised that all will be well and they will continue working together.
 
Prince of Pakistan said:
According to Mickey a phone call changed everything and led to a different decision. Before that call Mickey was promised that all will be well and they will continue working together.
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I'm 80% sure who was behind Misbah's appointment and I don't think it had anything to do with Wasim Khan nor Ehsan Mani. I believe these two wanted Mickey Arthur to continue his role as Head Coach.
 
Misbah has to take the decision on Azhar Ali now. Perhap time to give the captaincy to Babar.

If Azhar gets captaincy for Zimbabwe, the coach would be digging a hole for himself
 
Azrim_91 said:
The problem in our country is the mentality of our people. You take these 3 away and our country will embarrass itself in some other scandal. Pakistani people are jahil, and as much I hate to see us lose, I’ll give one credit to misbah and that is under his previous captaincy and now him being coach, our players haven’t made a fool of themselves from a non-cricketing point of view. And to be honest, if I was Imran Khan and being the prime minister, I couldn’t care less if we lost as long as my country keeps its respect and I can bring international cricket back to Pakistan. This is why we have Misbah and Azhar.... no one else to blame that the people of Pakistan.
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Completely awful post. This gentleman excuse has ruined us
 
topspin said:
I know right! When I read it, I thought to myself w t f did I just read lol.
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I think everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don’t think you all understood the point of my post. Nothing will change regardless of how much we whine because the PCB/Imran Khan are very happy with how things are. CT17 was firstly a complete fluke and secondly Misbah was still very much around the Pakistan camp during this period. I am in no way a misbah/Azhar fan. In fact I believe our cricket has gone downhill since misbah was appointed as captain post 2011 and have never supported him in delivering results for Pakistan cricket. I’m putting myself in the shoes of Imran Khan right now and tbh I’d be very happy sleeping at night knowing that at least cricket won’t keep me up all night when I have my puppet in Misbah who can keep the team at bay without seeing them in the papers the next morning.
 
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I can guarantee, nothing will change by changing the coach. Absolutely nothing. It's the players.

Can you change the fortunes of Zimbabwe cricket by appointing Andy Flower? No. It's the same with this Pakistan team. People are overrating the players and finding the coaches responsible for the debacle.
 
shariqnoor said:
I can guarantee, nothing will change by changing the coach. Absolutely nothing. It's the players.

Can you change the fortunes of Zimbabwe cricket by appointing Andy Flower? No. It's the same with this Pakistan team. People are overrating the players and finding the coaches responsible for the debacle.
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Players dont pick themselves. Granted there's no easy fix but the head honchos need to face the consequences.
 
shariqnoor said:
I can guarantee, nothing will change by changing the coach. Absolutely nothing. It's the players.

Can you change the fortunes of Zimbabwe cricket by appointing Andy Flower? No. It's the same with this Pakistan team. People are overrating the players and finding the coaches responsible for the debacle.
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The thing is, every player on this tour has performed significantly beneath expectations except Rizwan and maybe Yasir.

When we definitely have several guys all of whom have underperformed then we do need to look at the leadership and ask why they aren't getting the best out of them.
 
Line and Length said:
Misbah was the captain of Islamabad Utd when Sharjeel and Khalid were involved in the spot fixing scandal.
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Thank you for the excellent counterpoint to the ridiculous post above of how there were no scandals under Misbah. That was a huge one, and in the PSL no less.
 
shariqnoor said:
I can guarantee, nothing will change by changing the coach. Absolutely nothing. It's the players.

Can you change the fortunes of Zimbabwe cricket by appointing Andy Flower? No. It's the same with this Pakistan team. People are overrating the players and finding the coaches responsible for the debacle.
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Exactly!
So you tell us, what’s the point of spending US$300,000.00 a year on Misbah? And that too, when he said he will be solely responsible for team’s performance if given total power and lots of money.
 
Nothing will change. We have to accept Pakistan Cricket for what it is. A poor test side, a mid tear OD team and an average t20 side.

You can change all the coaches you want, but our results will remain the same.
 
Azrim_91 said:
I think everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don’t think you all understood the point of my post. Nothing will change regardless of how much we whine because the PCB/Imran Khan are very happy with how things are. CT17 was firstly a complete fluke and secondly Misbah was still very much around the Pakistan camp during this period. I am in no way a misbah/Azhar fan. In fact I believe our cricket has gone downhill since misbah was appointed as captain post 2011 and have never supported him in delivering results for Pakistan cricket. However, there is no denying that the mentality of our people is that of a jahil, including supporters like you I’m afraid. I’m putting myself in the shoes of Imran Khan right now and tbh I’d be very happy sleeping at night knowing that at least cricket won’t keep me up all night when I have my puppet in Misbah who can keep the team at bay without seeing them in the papers the next morning.
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CT17 was an one-off or you could say a flash in the pan. The use of the word fluke is inaccurate here but I know what you meant. If you want to fluke the CT you have to be at a certain level first. A case in point is Misbah's team during the CT13. They ended up losing every single game. Both tournaments were held in England, so what was the difference in the complete contrast in fortunes?

"Misbah was still very much around the Pakistan camp during this period". Even if this was true he had no say or influence to jeopardise Pakistan cricket.
 
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To be fair, even if we have the worlds best coaching staff, Pakistan team will still struggle to improve. The issues lies with insecurity, lack of confidence and the main one Politics.
 
Prince of Pakistan said:
According to Mickey a phone call changed everything and led to a different decision. Before that call Mickey was promised that all will be well and they will continue working together.
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That call would be from Imran Khan :ik to have this kind of influence
 
Guys, as much as I liked Mickey Arthur, I do not believe he was a great coach. His only success was with the South African team but this team consisted of some great players who would win matches single-handedly. Remember John Buchanan was in charge of Australia during the 90s and they were so dominant in that era but not because the coach was high caliber, it was the sheer quality of players within this team.
 
Bump....

Absolutely embarrassing and will continue with Misbah in charge.

First of all most disappointing was his team selection few players like Zafar Gohar and Abdullah Shafique should played the last ODI.
I wouldn’t mind if we lost if we gave chance to new and younger players but Misbah has shown what a clueless person he is.
We will continue to get embarrassed with Misbah and Co in charge
 
Billa86 said:
Guys, as much as I liked Mickey Arthur, I do not believe he was a great coach. His only success was with the South African team but this team consisted of some great players who would win matches single-handedly. Remember John Buchanan was in charge of Australia during the 90s and they were so dominant in that era but not because the coach was high caliber, it was the sheer quality of players within this team.
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We could beat Zimbabwe under him. We could beat Sri Lanka Z under team.

Not saying he made us the number one ranked team in the world, but most of us are hardly even bothered to watch Pakistan cricket now under Misbah.
 
Not sure how this is Misbah’s fault. If you’re 70-4 against Zimbabwe then you should be questioning the players, not the coach.

What happened to the stability that imam ul haq was meant to give?

What happened to the accumulators, Rizwan and Haider?
 
Sincere gratitude for your services, Misbah. Please bring Bhatti, Yasir, Imran and Irfan back into the team asap, now.
 
Terrible team selection, but clearly Misbah was just trying out all his options. Everyone got a go. He wanted to decide who were his best pacers, hence he found a way to get all of them to play. He also wanted to see who was the best allrounder/finisher. And of course opener, he doesn't know the best opener to partner Imam.

I'd have rather he just decided to play the two youngsters in Haider Ali and Abdullah for all the games. At least Haider got to play but perhaps only due to Haris's injury.

Even with the team put out, should have been enough to beat Zimbabwe and we looked pretty bad through out the series.

At least he didn't rely on Amir, Malik, Hafeez. If we'd have played them (maybe even 1 of Malik or Hafeez), pretty sure we would have won 3-0. But right to leave them out to build for the future.

Pretty disappointing overall. It's a very sorry looking record by Misbah so far. I mean everyone lost to Australia, but even previous coaches could beat Sri Lanka (since retirement of their star players) and whitewash Zimbabwe.
 
YousafTheBeast said:
Not sure how this is Misbah’s fault. If you’re 70-4 against Zimbabwe then you should be questioning the players, not the coach.

What happened to the stability that imam ul haq was meant to give?

What happened to the accumulators, Rizwan and Haider?
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I don't understand Misbah's obsession with Iftikhar. Not only he keeps playing him but also send him in the super over. Team selection is awful. You should always have six bowling options (which saved Pak in the 2nd ODI). Today Pak had 5 including Iftikhar and then Babar had difficulty in filling the overs when Iftikhar and Musa were going for runs.
Basically the problem is that Babar is not a strong captain and does what Misbah tells him. He should always keep a cushion in the bowling.
 
YousafTheBeast said:
Not sure how this is Misbah’s fault. If you’re 70-4 against Zimbabwe then you should be questioning the players, not the coach.

What happened to the stability that imam ul haq was meant to give?

What happened to the accumulators, Rizwan and Haider?
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What about the final xI,what about shaheen ahead of Musa,what about the super over picks
 
ads101 said:
Terrible team selection, but clearly Misbah was just trying out all his options. Everyone got a go. He wanted to decide who were his best pacers, hence he found a way to get all of them to play. He also wanted to see who was the best allrounder/finisher. And of course opener, he doesn't know the best opener to partner Imam.

I'd have rather he just decided to play the two youngsters in Haider Ali and Abdullah for all the games. At least Haider got to play but perhaps only due to Haris's injury.

Even with the team put out, should have been enough to beat Zimbabwe and we looked pretty bad through out the series.

At least he didn't rely on Amir, Malik, Hafeez. If we'd have played them (maybe even 1 of Malik or Hafeez), pretty sure we would have won 3-0. But right to leave them out to build for the future.

Pretty disappointing overall. It's a very sorry looking record by Misbah so far. I mean everyone lost to Australia, but even previous coaches could beat Sri Lanka (since retirement of their star players) and whitewash Zimbabwe.
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He didnt try out all options none of gohar,qadir,abdullah,rohail didnt play.

he played khushdil for 1 game how can you judge who's the best finisher based on 1 game.
 
There is nothing embarrassing about this defeat. Pakistan cricket fans need to stop being fickle. People are reacting as if we lost a World Cup final. We have already won the series. And I don't get this hatred towards Iftikhar at all, he won us the 2nd ODI. We made two mistakes, didn't play a proper spinner and selected a poor bowler like Musa.
 
Mercurial said:
There is nothing embarrassing about this defeat. Pakistan cricket fans need to stop being fickle. People are reacting as if we lost a World Cup final. We have already won the series. And I don't get this hatred towards Iftikhar at all, he won us the 2nd ODI. We made two mistakes, didn't play a proper spinner and selected a poor bowler like Musa.
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Who's culpable for that?
 
silent ischemia said:
I don't understand Misbah's obsession with Iftikhar. Not only he keeps playing him but also send him in the super over. Team selection is awful. You should always have six bowling options (which saved Pak in the 2nd ODI). Today Pak had 5 including Iftikhar and then Babar had difficulty in filling the overs when Iftikhar and Musa were going for runs.
Basically the problem is that Babar is not a strong captain and does what Misbah tells him. He should always keep a cushion in the bowling.
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He’s only played 7 games, if we can give faheem ashraf 20+ games with no performances then why not Ifthikar? Ifthikar isn’t the problem, our openers are the problem. Right now we don’t have 1 opener in ODI’s that shouldn’t be dropped.
 
shamaan said:
He didnt try out all options none of gohar,qadir,abdullah,rohail didnt play.

he played khushdil for 1 game how can you judge who's the best finisher based on 1 game.
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Only for positions he was unclear of. He knows his best spinner which is why shadab was made vc. Haris already performed and will probably be back was no need to add another in abdullah with gainer given a shot. I think haider may not have got a game if haris wasn’t injured. And of course he backs rizwan especially after test performances and ODI centuries.

Basically he was unsure of 2nd and 3rd pacers,2nd opener, finisher/no.6 batsman and pace allrounder. All were experimented for this.

Thats the thing with kushadil only given one game. It was expected people should prove themselves in one/two games. Lots were in the same boat. I don’t think this is an effective strategy. Give a player 3 games rather than lots for 1 or 2.
 
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Only for positions he was unclear of. He knows his best spinner which is why shadab was made vc. Haris already performed and will probably be back was no need to add another in abdullah with gainer given a shot. I think haider may not have got a game if haris wasn’t injured. And of course he backs rizwan especially after test performances and ODI centuries.

Basically he was unsure of 2nd and 3rd pacers,2nd opener, finisher/no.6 batsman and pace allrounder. All were experimented for this.

Thats the thing with kushadil only given one game. It was expected people should prove themselves in one/two games. Lots were in the same boat. I don’t think this is an effective strategy. Give a player 3 games rather than lots for 1 or 2.
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So if shadab gets injuired who does he relie on then.haris wont last until 2023 and even if he does last why would you not want more options than no options makes no sense.

So according to your understanding the 3 openers its going to be abid fakhar and imaam becouse they were tried against Zimbabwe.the only pace all rounder is fahim thier was no other one in the squad.

Yes they should give a series or 2 before we judge cant expect them to perform straight away
 
The Misbah curse continues. Absolutely embarrassing.
Worst thing to happen to Pakistan cricket is Misbah becoming captain and coach.
 
if only Salman Butt was raised to be an honest human being and did not do any fixing. Wow how one misguided individual enabled to create a legacy for another out of nowhere. Unbelievable.
 
You cannot tell me that a professional coach with proper experience cannot make you perform better than this regardless of how poor our cricketers are?
 
Misbah and Waqar are entirely responsible for this mess. Series after series, its the same merry go round.
 
CricLegend said:
if only Salman Butt was raised to be an honest human being and did not do any fixing. Wow how one misguided individual enabled to create a legacy for another out of nowhere. Unbelievable.
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Ameen to that.
 
Its been quite apparent from an early stage that Misbah simply isn't up to the task here whatsoever. The limited overs teams have taken massive steps back, and the Test form has been very poor. 60 runs from 50 overs on a flat track is unbelievable, and it has to be an instruction because its not possible to be this slow without intending to block virtually everything.

It'sa shame because his playing career ended on a high which I feel he deserved as he seems a respectable and likeable man, I could see him being of use in future as an ethics officer or something as whatever about his abilities his intentions seem to be pure, but a coach he is not.

Honestly Mickey Arthur got shafted so badly. His tenure while not perfect was far from a disaster and I feel you are heading backwards significantly. Massively reliant on Babar to do a lot of work.
 
Wagner playing on with a broken toe, this is what cricketers from the subcontinent lack, and that is courage.
 
OffDrive said:
Wagner playing on with a broken toe, this is what cricketers from the subcontinent lack, and that is courage.
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Broken toe?

Watch this

Imagine if this was a Pak batsman .... he would be on his knees every time, rubbing the spots and calling the physio every time.

This fight back, this stare back in the bowlers' eyes, this spirit, this courage and this bravery by a batsman, is beyond desi mindset.

THIS is what you call a tough cookie.

 
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Colorblind Genius said:
Broken toe?

Watch this

Imagine if this was a Pak batsman .... he would be on his knees every time, rubbing the spots and calling the physio every time.

This fight back, this stare back in the bowlers' eyes, this spirit, this courage and this bravery by a batsman, is beyond desi mindset.

THIS is what you call a tough cookie.

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I am sure there a players who show courage when needed, but I haven't seen any subcontinent players show guts and courage.

Obviously I haven't seen every Test or every game in cricket, but it jest seems that people form the subcontinent have something lacking.
 
Misbah and Waqar need to get the boot in order to revive Pakistan cricket. Since they took over, they destroyed a stable limited overs team, and pushed our test team backwards. This isn’t working. We are back in 2012-2015 period where we kept losing. Time to look past these two garbage coaches.
 
This team is pathetic too, not just Misbah

Let me start by saying most players and Misbah and Waqar deserve to be dropped. But going through the threads it looks as if Misbah is THE cause of this embarrassment and if the coach changes everything will be good

Does Misbah deserve to be there, absolutely not. A disgrace to the job


Sorry to say this, the Pakistan cricket is rotten to the core.

Yes Abid, Azhar, Haris, Fawad, Yasir and Naseem to/ should be dropped

Let’s assume the top scorers/ wicket takers of QeA replace them

K Ghulam
S Shakeel
A Salman
M Nawaz
H Azam
Akbar ur Rahman
U Amin
S Khan
A Shafiq
H Talat

N Ali
S Khan (off spinner)
Z Mahmood
H Ali
W Maqsood
A S Abdullah


This is the list of some of the top performers. But sorry to break it to the fans, it’s as worse as the current lot.

I’ve seen fans calling for Saud, the saviour, let me tell you he’s a clone of Assad. Fails often in the first innings and scores in the second innings when the match has already been decided

When your Nawaz and Hammad and guys like , Agha who all average 30+ are ur top performers then god save Pakistan

The only quality player I’ve seen is Mubashir Khan, but he’s to play cricket for at least 3 more seasons. And Nauman Ali looks decent. Hassan Ali cannot perform worse than Naseem

In short, you drop or don’t drop players and/ or coaches it won’t make much difference

Pakistan is 6/7th ranked team

Sit and relax and watch Babar and Shaheen or may be even Rizwan, just the three world class players you’ve
 
OffDrive said:
I am sure there a players who show courage when needed, but I haven't seen any subcontinent players show guts and courage.

Obviously I haven't seen every Test or every game in cricket, but it jest seems that people form the subcontinent have something lacking.
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Kumble in Antigua. Hit on the face and spat blood, broken Jaw. Continued batting. He bowled later with a broken Jaw.

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Wahab in Colombo had a hairline fracture but bowled 9-10 overs. Came out to bat in the 2nd inning as number 11 to bat.
 
Babar_Azam_fan said:
Let me start by saying most players and Misbah and Waqar deserve to be dropped. But going through the threads it looks as if Misbah is THE cause of this embarrassment and if the coach changes everything will be good

Does Misbah deserve to be there, absolutely not. A disgrace to the job


Sorry to say this, the Pakistan cricket is rotten to the core.

Yes Abid, Azhar, Haris, Fawad, Yasir and Naseem to/ should be dropped

Let’s assume the top scorers/ wicket takers of QeA replace them

K Ghulam
S Shakeel
A Salman
M Nawaz
H Azam
Akbar ur Rahman
U Amin
S Khan
A Shafiq
H Talat

N Ali
S Khan (off spinner)
Z Mahmood
H Ali
W Maqsood
A S Abdullah


This is the list of some of the top performers. But sorry to break it to the fans, it’s as worse as the current lot.

I’ve seen fans calling for Saud, the saviour, let me tell you he’s a clone of Assad. Fails often in the first innings and scores in the second innings when the match has already been decided

When your Nawaz and Hammad and guys like , Agha who all average 30+ are ur top performers then god save Pakistan

The only quality player I’ve seen is Mubashir Khan, but he’s to play cricket for at least 3 more seasons. And Nauman Ali looks decent. Hassan Ali cannot perform worse than Naseem

In short, you drop or don’t drop players and/ or coaches it won’t make much difference

Pakistan is 6/7th ranked team

Sit and relax and watch Babar and Shaheen or may be even Rizwan, just the three world class players you’ve
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Dude, you're missing the point completely, we're not all dumb and deluded. I don't have the energy to explain it all at the moment.
 
Donal Cozzie said:
Its been quite apparent from an early stage that Misbah simply isn't up to the task here whatsoever. The limited overs teams have taken massive steps back, and the Test form has been very poor. 60 runs from 50 overs on a flat track is unbelievable, and it has to be an instruction because its not possible to be this slow without intending to block virtually everything.

It'sa shame because his playing career ended on a high which I feel he deserved as he seems a respectable and likeable man, I could see him being of use in future as an ethics officer or something as whatever about his abilities his intentions seem to be pure, but a coach he is not.

Honestly Mickey Arthur got shafted so badly. His tenure while not perfect was far from a disaster and I feel you are heading backwards significantly. Massively reliant on Babar to do a lot of work.
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Spot on. Misbah was given an insane responsibility given his experience level as a coach. He started off with multiple roles and now he is left with one.

The question marks about him have been present since his first assignment where we got humiliated by SL. There have been precious little highlights since but numerous failings which add up to showing us that he simply does not know what he is doing.

The point about Mickey hurts because while he was far from perfect there seemed to be some progression under his wing. Misbah has undone all that good work and then some, and we still wait with our head in our hands for this nightmare to end.
 
Got to face reality, pakistan are a average to decent side who have the ability once in a while to surprise the better sides. Quality players obviously don't grow on trees and like it or not the current coaching set up have A limited talent pool to work with.
 
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Spot on. Misbah was given an insane responsibility given his experience level as a coach. He started off with multiple roles and now he is left with one.

The question marks about him have been present since his first assignment where we got humiliated by SL. There have been precious little highlights since but numerous failings which add up to showing us that he simply does not know what he is doing.

The point about Mickey hurts because while he was far from perfect there seemed to be some progression under his wing. Misbah has undone all that good work and then some, and we still wait with our head in our hands for this nightmare to end.
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Mickey didnt tolerate seniority culture and wasnt afraid to give young players responsibility to my memory. Some obviously didn't like that and it cost him the job, how often has that been a foreign coach's downfall?

Whatever about Tests, I recall your LO sides being pretty decent during his time, while not perfect.
 
OffDrive said:
I am sure there a players who show courage when needed, but I haven't seen any subcontinent players show guts and courage.

Obviously I haven't seen every Test or every game in cricket, but it jest seems that people form the subcontinent have something lacking.
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'What separated Jimmy from the others,' Michael Holding said, 'was his great ability to withstand pain . . . A fast bowler knows when a batsman is in pain. But Jimmy would stand up and continue.'

"Jimmy" happened to be an Indian.
 
Thank you Misbah alongside Waqar who have made Pakistan team a absolute embarrassment. Misbah becoming captain and now coach is the worst thing to happen to Pakistan cricket.
 
I think therfore I am said:
Why blame Misbah and Co. Blame the joke of a board PCB for hiring these clowns. One big circus
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If we go back to the events surrounding his "appointment" and I use that term loosely is that he pretty much grabbed the positions for himself.

He sat on the committee to fire MA to pave the way, he was also the darling of the PCB at that time and Wasim Khan was too new at the time to oppose his appointment or know any better.

But in saying that, WK should have known better than to sanction the appointment of a rookie and clown.
 
Thanks again Misbah. The saviour of Pakistan cricket. If it wasn't for Misbah after 2010 we would been not even playing Zimbabwe but playing associate cricket. Thanks Misbah your a legend
 
Under Mickey we won tri series involving Australia too. Now Misbah is back with his curse of us losing to pathetic teams. What players and team are being selected. Damn you Babar too. Spineless captain
 
Useless, pathetic coach with a pathetic mindset and an equally incompetent coaching staff.

Worst appointment in the history of Pakistan cricket. Just like Arsenal clinging on to Wenger throughout the years of torture in order to save money!
 
How is this Misbah's fault?

How is this not your captains fault?

How is this not M.waseem's fault?
 
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