Is it a work ethic issue where the players don't work hard on their weaknesses? Yousaf in a tv interview stated that the players don't work hard and he can take a horse to water but can't force it to drink it. Similarly the likes of Wasim Akram, Herschuelle Gibbs, Adam Hollioake have all complained about Babar Azam ie he is stubborn and doesn't listen to advice to improve his batting, he sticks to his comfort zone and I am assuming this is not just Babar but applies to many of our other players as well.
Is a poor coaching issue at the academies and grass roots where coaches are incompetent and cannot identify technical issues with players and don't have the idea how to help the players fix them?
Is it an infrastructure issue for eg India, Australia, England have academies everywhere where a lot of batters have access to bowling machines where they can literally face 300 plus balls consecutively ie fast ball, outswinger, inswinger, full, yorker, bouncer, on offstump, outside off stump, leg spin, off spin, left arm spin, chinaman and can practice on his weak areas, against different match scenarios. I read an article that Pakistan lacks these facilities in their academies and have to rely on net bowlers who get tired in 30-40 minutes and players mostly practice on their strengths and are in denial about their weaknesses. They have no idea how to fix their games. How can you produce quality batters when they don't or can't put in the work that batters from the big 5 do?
The problem is a combination of all of the above and my solution which is very expensive, not easy was for the PCB to appoint foreign coaches in your academies, domestic teams, academies, U19 and Shaheen teams pay them good competitive salaries and task them to raise the standard in Pakistan's domestic system, train local Pakistani coaches within ten years.
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