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Thank you rameez bhai, we are about to lose the second test to Australia. Doctor more pitches
lol. Had the pitch been even remotely sporting Pakistan would be in a bigger hole. Flat pitch / sporting wicket makes no different when the side is stacked with mental midgets.
Rameez has reportedly also told commentaors not to doscuss the pitch anymore
You can't blame the pitch. Both sides have now batted on it. Australia scored 556/9 and Pakistan is struggling at 110/8.
The gap in quality with bat and ball for both sides speaks for itself.
Warned people from the beginning that Ramiz is a narcissistic, micromanaging populist who plays to the galleries with sweet talk of aggressive cricket and grandiose schemes, and will prove an utter disaster.
- We still do not have permanent coaches. Saqlain is only there on a 12 month contract. Tait has few coaching qualifications like Hayden but hired by Ramiz because of the simpleton logic that they're Aussies so must possess some cricketing superpower.
- Ordering dead pitches for Australia series. Despite all the empty talk of fearless cricket, Ramiz clearly still has PTSD from all those beatings suffered at hands of Australia in the 1990s so has produced dull surfaces totally negating home advantage. What was wrong with the pitches last year vs South Africa ?
Toby Lumsden (an Aussie obviously) is flown in days before 3rd Test in another embarrassing PR mission. What can he do in a few days ? The previous PCB regime brought Andy Atkinson in 12 months before the South Africa series.
- Orders commentators to not even SPEAK about the pitches ! Height of insecurity and pettiness.
- Claimed credit for Pakistan's T20 World Cup run which was nothing to do with him. We have 10 years of experience of UAE pitches. This narcissist even claims he told Babar Azam what fields to set vs India. He also interfered with the squad selection.
- Obsessed with harebrained and unrealistic schemes, e.g. Quadrangular tournament featuring India, womens'/U19
PSL, ordering drop-in pitches when we should be improving our regular turf pitches, wants to build a new stadium in Islamabad when our other stadiums are rundown.
- Constantly making statements on YouTube.
The only positive decision I can think of are those Junior player contracts.
Can't blame Ramiz. Our batsmen have been playing defensively for the last 10 years. It appears this has become a cultural problem now. Azhar Ali has played like this forever. This is one series too many for Fawad, Australia ended his ODI career in 2014 and have now ended his test career as well.
Ramiz is definitely accountable for the pitches prepared - he openly admitted on YouTube that they prepared dull surfaces to negate Australian bowlers.
He talks a good game but actions speak louder.
My understanding is that Ramiz has been imploring out groundsmen to prepare spinning tracks like you find in India, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka but our curators are just incompetent.
My understanding is that Ramiz has been imploring out groundsmen to prepare spinning tracks like you find in India, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka but our curators are just incompetent.
People blaming Ramiz Raja need to seriously stop it and get a life, he is just an easy target. No where else in the world is the cricket board chairman or even the coach targeted early on in their tenure. In Cricket, the captain is everything and the PCB under Ramiz have empowerd the captain ie Babar to select the players he wants.
Sadly Babar as we saw in the PSL is just an incompetent and uninspiring leader and the Pakistani players are not good enough to thrive in pressure situations for long time periods. These are the same set of players ie Azhar Ali, Imam ul Haq, Fawad Alam and Co who have failed in the past ten years as well.
We are the only team in the world which keeps sticking to TTfs who have a history of non impactful performances against the big teams.
Ramiz did not put appropriate support structure around this team. Babar has his shortcomings but Ramiz is out of touch with reality and wants to impose his out dated ideas on the team. That's on him.
Not really, Ramiz has appointed an experienced qualified head coach in Saqlain and a bowling coach in Shaun Tait and he appointed the batting coach in Yousaf. The players have everything they needed but they still fell short and that is on them.
People blaming Ramiz Raja need to seriously stop it and get a life, he is just an easy target. No where else in the world is the cricket board chairman or even the coach targeted early on in their tenure. In Cricket, the captain is everything and the PCB under Ramiz have empowerd the captain ie Babar to select the players he wants.
Sadly Babar as we saw in the PSL is just an incompetent and uninspiring leader and the Pakistani players are not good enough to thrive in pressure situations for long time periods. These are the same set of players ie Azhar Ali, Imam ul Haq, Fawad Alam and Co who have failed in the past ten years as well.
We are the only team in the world which keeps sticking to TTfs who have a history of non impactful performances against the big teams.
Ramiz did not put appropriate support structure around this team. Babar has his shortcomings but Ramiz is out of touch with reality and wants to impose his out dated ideas on the team. That's on him.
Saqlain at best was an assistant coach. He doesn’t come across as a great spin bowling coach either
PCB has been a total failure at acquiring the services of a proper head coach!
Tbh the role of a coach at this level is over rated. The players have failed and some of them ie Imad, Azhar Ali, Fawad, Nauman, Sajid need moving on wheras Hasan Ali needs dropping after this series.
Pakistan is not a champion team like Australia and India where it has 5-6 established world class cricketers to carry the team without a proper coach.
These guys have so many flaws that can be pointed out by level 4 coaches working in County and Australia
Ramiz did not put appropriate support structure around this team. Babar has his shortcomings but Ramiz is out of touch with reality and wants to impose his out dated ideas on the team. That's on him.
What was so bad about Wasim Khan, apart from appointing Misbah for three roles (at the start) and failing to host uninterrupted PSL seasons?
What was so bad about Wasim Khan, apart from appointing Misbah for three roles (at the start) and failing to host uninterrupted PSL seasons?
Not really, Ramiz has appointed an experienced qualified head coach in Saqlain and a bowling coach in Shaun Tait and he appointed the batting coach in Yousaf. The players have everything they needed but they still fell short and that is on them.
People blaming Ramiz Raja need to seriously stop it and get a life, he is just an easy target. No where else in the world is the cricket board chairman or even the coach targeted early on in their tenure. In Cricket, the captain is everything and the PCB under Ramiz have empowerd the captain ie Babar to select the players he wants.
Sadly Babar as we saw in the PSL is just an incompetent and uninspiring leader and the Pakistani players are not good enough to thrive in pressure situations for long time periods. These are the same set of players ie Azhar Ali, Imam ul Haq, Fawad Alam and Co who have failed in the past ten years as well.
We are the only team in the world which keeps sticking to TTfs who have a history of non impactful performances against the big teams.
Tbh the role of a coach at this level is over rated. The players have failed and some of them ie Imad, Azhar Ali, Fawad, Nauman, Sajid need moving on wheras Hasan Ali needs dropping after this series.
Not really, Ramiz has appointed an experienced qualified head coach in Saqlain and a bowling coach in Shaun Tait and he appointed the batting coach in Yousaf. The players have everything they needed but they still fell short and that is on them.
Saqlian had no takers and this experienced qualified coach was appointed without due process. Tait's coachig credentials include a stint wit Afghanistan and M. Yousaf has no experience of coaching in a team environment.
Ramiz has set up this team to fail.
What was so bad about Wasim Khan, apart from appointing Misbah for three roles (at the start) and failing to host uninterrupted PSL seasons?
The same rag tag group of coaches were appointed for the World Cup and Pakistan almost won it. Saqlain, Hayden who had no real coaching experience and joined the team in Dubai.. and Philander who was a consultant.
Ramiz raja is going anyway , maximum a month.
how and why ?
His pitch doctoring led us to lose the series to aus
Not only the series but his handling of the situation was very poor and unprofessional. He's shown he has no tact or sensitivity. He literally embarrassed the whole nation at such an important time. Can you imagine CEO of ECB or CA acting like this?
Ramiz raja should be shown the door he kicked misbah and waqar out and that’s more then enough. Now get someone who can actually do their job.
Salman Butt on Ramiz:
"[The] PCB chairman claims that every domestic player earns up to Rs5 million annually but that is actually not the complete truth. Only those domestic players will be able to earn up to Rs5 million annually who will feature in every match of every format in a domestic season. However, the truth is that hardly ten players are named in every format of the domestic season."
"What about the financial future of those players whom PCB does not consider to play all three formats?"
"Ramiz Raja believes in kingship where no one is permitted to ask him counter questions, not even press or specialists of that field. He does not want to answer anyone."
"The chairman is interfering in the issues of the national team. Is the world’s number one batter unaware of how to do a pitch inspection that a chairman of the board is asking him to have a video call so he can take a look at the pitch for decision making? How would have Babar Azam felt when Ramiz Raja would have asked him for a video call for the sake of pitch inspection?"
"Ramiz Raja is making slaves rather than leaders through such policies"
Pakistan junior league failed.
Shaheens injury rehab didnt start on time and could be out for longer
Not started yet.
I meant as the franchsing model they tried to dom no one bought the teams
I meant as the franchsing model they tried to dom no one bought the teams
I meant as the franchsing model they tried to dom no one bought the teams
The PCB should have launched the PSL immediately in 2008-2009, we waited for 6-7 years out of the fear of failure.
Even back then in 2015-2016 all stakeholders were scared, Sethi had to literally beg the franchise owners to pay an extra $500,000-$1,000,000 on top of what they were initially looking to pay for a team out of patriotic reasons.
The PCB title sponsorship, broadcasting deal back then was a pittance early on but with every season the PSL product proved it self and you then saw the PCB sell its third team for $6 million a year and get a better broadcast, title sponsorship deal in subsequent seasons.
If the PSL started in 2008-2009 we would not have been playing catch up with the IPL.
The BCCI has plans to introduce a Women's and U19 IPL T20 tournament next year and I guarantee they will do it for a profit. The PCB is rightfully taking these steps viewing these ventures as an investment which will grow in value in 3-5 years and give a decent ROI.
It isn't that no one wanted to buy it, it's just PCB had set a certain price and didn't get what they were looking for. From an investor perspective, it's new & risky so its hard to pay up top dollars for something that hasn't been done before.
It makes sense for PCB to not sell short either if they believe this will work. It remains to be seen but I really hope it works. For a lot of fans, it's exciting to see & find new talented cricketers that can potentially be the next big thing and this gives the young players a big platform to perform & get noticed. Even an U-19 WC isn't really well promoted or broadcasted and I think cricket in general has a very under developed market for showing off these young stars. You look at North America sports like NHL where the U-20 World Juniors is super competitive, fun & people love to watch it. Or a lot of the college sports as well like march madness in NBA.
Maybe it will fail but instead of criticizing, we should be applauding PCB for trying something new & bold instead of running the same old crap they have been running.
At least they are trying something NEW and innovative. At least they are willing to take risks.
Any good business person will tell you that experimentation, innovation and risk taking is very important for long term success.
Sure, this may not be fruitful monetarily in the short run, but there's a chance it would be beneficial both monetarily and cricketing wise
According to reports, atleast 30 corporate entities and 3 existing psl franchises promised to buy out the teams in April.
However because of the deterioration in the political, economic situation in the country, the massive fluctuation in the USD PKR exchange rate and the fact the PCB was unable to secure the title sponsorship, live streaming rights at the base prices that they wanted everyone backtracked and left the PCB dry at the last minute.
Some entities demanded the PCB sell the teams to them at steal prices ie 10% of the base prices. The PCB went like screw you, we are not giving you our product for free, we will pay for it ourselves early on and build the product up.
PCB made the right decision, can't allow psl franchises and corporate entities to cheap arm it. Bad for business in the long run.
Applauding for what? For the sake of coming up with a stupid idea and when it failed, instead of backing out still trying to continue due to ego?
I said it the first day that this was gonna fail, no one is waste money on such a dumb league as it brings no benefit to investors.
North America has a sporting culture. Pakistan doesnt have a sports culture. Remember the u19, world cup, only the few people follow it.
That culture was built into North America. They didn't wake up and were born with it one day.
Goal should be to grow that sports culture within Pakistan too.
The economic conditions going bad were predicted in june...
I will put the issue in simple terms.
1. Not every dick and harry can start a crickrt league. Thank najem sethi for psl.
2. There is no benefit for a person having a franchise team that winsm the benefit comes from the marketing, they need players to stay with them to market and brand the tram. U19 franchise model cant exist because after an year those players will have be forced their way out. Each year there would be new batch of players joining and that doesnt help if you want to earn money from marketing
culture isnt built through have a u19 franchise model.
First improve PSL, do better team branding and marketing.
Look at IPL, IPL success didnt leadd to an u19 franchise league but franchise league in sports like Kabaddi and hockey. Now they have a sporting culture.
The economic conditions going bad were predicted in june...
I will put the issue in simple terms.
1. Not every dick and harry can start a crickrt league. Thank najem sethi for psl.
2. There is no benefit for a person having a franchise team that winsm the benefit comes from the marketing, they need players to stay with them to market and brand the tram. U19 franchise model cant exist because after an year those players will have be forced their way out. Each year there would be new batch of players joining and that doesnt help if you want to earn money from marketing