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He is speaking out on the right issue that desperately needs attention

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More team --> less quality of domestic teams

but too little teams --> Less opportunity for us to showcase talent

A better format would be:
- To have 6 teams in Division one, 6 teams in Division 2 & 6 teams in Division 3
- 2 teams relegated / promoted each season. It would raise the stakes, you would make the First division competitive, and also would have players from smaller regions participate.
 
Asad T said:
More team --> less quality of domestic teams

but too little teams --> Less opportunity for us to showcase talent

A better format would be:
- To have 6 teams in Division one, 6 teams in Division 2 & 6 teams in Division 3
- 2 teams relegated / promoted each season. It would raise the stakes, you would make the First division competitive, and also would have players from smaller regions participate.
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Absolutely,

DIV 3 shouldn't have FC status though.

You need promotions/relegation to stop teams stagnating and coaches/staff becoming lazy. Otherwise its jsut a merry go round of players
 
DeadlyVenom said:
Absolutely,

DIV 3 shouldn't have FC status though.

You need promotions/relegation to stop teams stagnating and coaches/staff becoming lazy. Otherwise its jsut a merry go round of players
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Yes totally agree, and all matches should ideally be televised or, if it cannot be, then have Division 2 & 3 live-streamed

Live streaming is cheap and easy to do
 
Technically it was 12 FC teams in the 6/6 system divided by division. At the time, people complained it was too few teams, we need to give more players a chance. Now its gone to 18 teams and its too many, quality isn't there, it isn't broadcasted or covered etc and honestly, they are legitimate criticism.

One match was broadcasted under the previous system and that helped engage fans and gave players a chance to really get noticed. Nowadays, you just get these stats without any context, without any idea what the pitch is like, how fast or slow bowlers are bowling, what batters techniques look like etc. Even the selectors on the committee, do they even have any idea what any of these players look like and who's a real future talent in this massive pool of mid?

Personally, I am a fan of the two tier division system where a youngster can work through a lower level class of players, prove themselves, get promoted and do it in the first tier before being up for promotion with the national team. Maybe 6/6 (12 teams) is too little and if you want to go 6 tier 1 teams & 10 tier 2 teams or something, that is fine.

We always blame players for not caring about FC or Tests but it's the people in charge and behind the scenes who hold the power to change that but don't care about it themselves to do it.
 
Nasty Naz said:
Technically it was 12 FC teams in the 6/6 system divided by division. At the time, people complained it was too few teams, we need to give more players a chance. Now its gone to 18 teams and its too many, quality isn't there, it isn't broadcasted or covered etc and honestly, they are legitimate criticism.

One match was broadcasted under the previous system and that helped engage fans and gave players a chance to really get noticed. Nowadays, you just get these stats without any context, without any idea what the pitch is like, how fast or slow bowlers are bowling, what batters techniques look like etc. Even the selectors on the committee, do they even have any idea what any of these players look like and who's a real future talent in this massive pool of mid?

Personally, I am a fan of the two tier division system where a youngster can work through a lower level class of players, prove themselves, get promoted and do it in the first tier before being up for promotion with the national team. Maybe 6/6 (12 teams) is too little and if you want to go 6 tier 1 teams & 10 tier 2 teams or something, that is fine.

We always blame players for not caring about FC or Tests but it's the people in charge and behind the scenes who hold the power to change that but don't care about it themselves to do it.
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In the previous system were the other 6 teams not second XI? Don't think they had FC status but could be wrong.
 
He's right. I can't believe we have so many teams and no coverage at all other than snippets of the performances.
 
the number of teams is a distraction. The constant change in that number is the real problem because it doesn’t allow teams to gel.
Even bigger problem is the lack of use of the FC performance data to select players.
 
Ok if there is no value why are you not outperforming everyone than?


I really dislike Maqsood. When this guy was not getting selected after having an avg of 50ish in list A cricket, a whole campaign was ran for him that a greater of such quality not getting selected this and that. He eventaullly got selected, had a decent debut, but than kept on giving a terrible performance. After that his fans and his pr team were not to be seen.

So i agreee with the poster here at top that he was also a domestic bully that failed at international.
 
Tabish Khan medium pace bully age 39, Akbarur Rehman, Many veterans are playing. We have seen our best domestic talent failed in legend league.
 
First class is dying. The biggest problem is no one wants to watch. It doesn’t matter if it’s live streamed, no one still will watch.

Domestic needs to be profitable and more widely watched. And if there’s little pressure due to lack of viewership and money, it will be hard maintaining a high standard.

I don’t really know what to do to solve this though as I don’t think there is anything that can be done to get people to watch first class cricket. People just don’t care anymore.
 
ads101 said:
First class is dying. The biggest problem is no one wants to watch. It doesn’t matter if it’s live streamed, no one still will watch.

Domestic needs to be profitable and more widely watched. And if there’s little pressure due to lack of viewership and money, it will be hard maintaining a high standard.

I don’t really know what to do to solve this though as I don’t think there is anything that can be done to get people to watch first class cricket. People just don’t care anymore.
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In a country where people don't care about test cricket (especially when your team only plays 4-5 tests a year) so why would they bother with FC cricket.

You've got a bunch of overweight and over the mill players playing and getting paid for it too so it's easy money for everyone. 18 teams playing and then the pitches are such too so it's bound to happen.
 
We should cut through the noise and every season pick 3 promising u16 batters and bowlers and send them on a performance based fully sponsored 2 year stint in OZ and Eng where they play club cricket and get access to their coaches.
 
Nasty Naz said:
Technically it was 12 FC teams in the 6/6 system divided by division. At the time, people complained it was too few teams, we need to give more players a chance. Now its gone to 18 teams and its too many, quality isn't there, it isn't broadcasted or covered etc and honestly, they are legitimate criticism.

One match was broadcasted under the previous system and that helped engage fans and gave players a chance to really get noticed. Nowadays, you just get these stats without any context, without any idea what the pitch is like, how fast or slow bowlers are bowling, what batters techniques look like etc. Even the selectors on the committee, do they even have any idea what any of these players look like and who's a real future talent in this massive pool of mid?

Personally, I am a fan of the two tier division system where a youngster can work through a lower level class of players, prove themselves, get promoted and do it in the first tier before being up for promotion with the national team. Maybe 6/6 (12 teams) is too little and if you want to go 6 tier 1 teams & 10 tier 2 teams or something, that is fine.

We always blame players for not caring about FC or Tests but it's the people in charge and behind the scenes who hold the power to change that but don't care about it themselves to do it.
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But the players in those 6 teams played very few FC matches then. And you need to play more than 5-6 FC matches a year. It was structured horribly as most of First XI and Second XI matches took place in parallel.
 
BunnyRabbit said:
But the players in those 6 teams played very few FC matches then. And you need to play more than 5-6 FC matches a year. It was structured horribly as most of First XI and Second XI matches took place in parallel.
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That's not a first XI or 2nd XI thing though, that's PCB themselves ignoring FC cricket. This current QeA only has 5 games before it goes to triangular teams (I am not even sure what this format is or how it works). So essentially, most teams are playing 5 games.

England FC for example had 14 FC games. It's not a 1st XI or 2nd XI, it's simply poor scheduling from PCB. County FC was stretched over a 6 month period - Pakistan tries to quickly wrap up its FC in 6 weeks. IIRC, the entire domestic season last season lasted around 3-4 months and that's including FC/List A/T20. Most don't get selected to PSL so it's basically 9 months of nothing.
 
The domestic system let down many players who deserved a shot in the national team but could not because of the corruption and parachi system.
 

He is sharing his experiences and observations on Pakistan's Domestic Cricket Structure given his 17-18 year playing career

He has the following revelations

- He has seen around 10 changes to the domestic cricket structure in his career. He is critical of the fact that the changes in the domestic structure are always linked and reactive to the performance of the international team for e.g. if the pakistani batting flops for 5-6 series in a row, the PCB prepares green tops and directs the use of the dukes ball which aids seam, swing under the assumption that this will help produce technically correct players in domestic cricket automatically

- The PCB needs to find the right balance b/w quantity and quality. Playing 24 plus teams dilutes the quality of domestic cricket because regions and teams which barely have 1-2 decent players are now being forced to field teams of 15 players and out of no where the amount of double centuries have gone up in domestic cricket which most likely came against very low quality bowling attacks

- He is also critical of the PCB for holding these domestic games in stadiums, pitches where the public is completely unaware of and unlikely to come. The PCB needs to hold these domestic games at the likes of National Bank National Stadium, Bank of Punjab Qadhafi Stadium, Rawalpindi, Multan Stadium e.t.c.

- Players themselves don't know which domestic team they will play for and represent season to season. It takes a team around 2-3 seasons for its players to gell together, to understand the teams and their own strengths, weaknesses, to fight for the team. When players end up playing for a different team every season, you will only breed chaos and insecurity where players only look out for themselves as they know they only have a few games to prove themselves otherwise they will be kicked out

- He is highly critical of the PCB decision to bring the dukes ball and preparing green tops in domestic cricket. This has resulted in dibbly dobbly medium pacers who bowl at 110-120 km/hr and these medium pacers end up topping the domestic bowling charts in comparison to genuine quick bowlers, matches were ending on average in 1.5-2 days and out of 8 games he witnessed not a single game barely went into the third day. He himself mentioned an opening batsman who opened the bowling for his side with medium pace and he ended up running through the opposition team with the new ball. There is no way the PCB will ever ask these medium pacers to play for Pakistan using the Kookaburra ball because they will not have international standard speed and quality. Batsmen when facing the dukes ball on a green top end up developing the mentality to slash at every delivery outside the offstump because they are so desperate to score runs that they don't mind edges over slips or third man going for boundaries. The PCB is badly mistaken if they think this is how they will produce technically correct batters who can occupy the crease and bat, score for long periods of time.

The PCB when they see that Pakistan is struggling to produce genuine quick bowlers or batters who can bat for long time periods, they react by ordering the Kookaburra ball to be used in domestic cricket on flat wickets and the end result is you have bowlers struggling to take wickets and average batters topping the batting charts.

If the PCB wants to use the Dukes ball in domestic cricket then they need to prepare flat wickets because the Dukes ball still provides reasonable assistance to the bowlers when the ball gets older but batsmen also have a chance to score runs. Similarly if the PCB wants to use the Kookaburra ball in domestic cricket then they have to prepare pitches with assistance for the bowlers

- However he feels like England uses the Dukes Ball in England, Australia and South Africa use the Kookaburra ball in their conditions, India uses the SCG ball in India, Similarly the PCB needs to use the Grey's ball in Pakistan as that is the best ball for Pakistani conditions. The greys ball swings, seams in Pakistan, when the ball gets softer, it aids spin, reverse swing and batsmen are able to play shots as well. Spinners will be able to bowl long spells.

- The PCB and the broadcasters need to stream the domestic games live on tv or their Youtube channels. This drives home the message to the players that there is no value of domestic cricket and the domestic players struggle to handle the pressure of international cricket when they have to play live in front of the world and in jam packed stadiums.

- He is critical of the PCB's selection restrictions in domestic cricket for lacking flexibility i.e. PCB has imposed age restrictions where domestic teams cannot select players above 35 years of age, a team cannot have 3 wicket keepers, if the other two wicket keepers are very good batters and better batsmen then some of the other batsmen, are you going to prevent them from playing for their teams as a regular batsman? Similarly, the PCB has a rule that you have to play atleast 3 pacers in every match even if the wicket is dry, soft and aiding spin. Similarly, the PCB has a rule that an opener can only be replaced by another opener, not a middle order batsman, if the same openers keep failing for ten matches in a row, the team still has to stick to the same openers even if the middle order batsmen sitting on the bench are equally talented players. All the selections, decisions in the domestic team's playing elevens happen as per the PCB rules and directives, the coaches have no say to select their teams based on the conditions. The coaches don't revolt or say anything against the PCB because they want to save their jobs

- Such is the low quality nature of Pakistan's domestic cricket that if the likes of Babar, Rizwan, Shaheen play domestic games, they will spend the entire day taking selfies from their star struck fellow players

- He guarantees that if the PCB just gets these basic things right and actually improves the quality of domestic cricket, the quality of the players, selections, balls, pitches, the results will automatically reflect on the performances of the national team
 
Savak said:

He is sharing his experiences and observations on Pakistan's Domestic Cricket Structure given his 17-18 year playing career

He has the following revelations

- He has seen around 10 changes to the domestic cricket structure in his career. He is critical of the fact that the changes in the domestic structure are always linked and reactive to the performance of the international team for e.g. if the pakistani batting flops for 5-6 series in a row, the PCB prepares green tops and directs the use of the dukes ball which aids seam, swing under the assumption that this will help produce technically correct players in domestic cricket automatically

- The PCB needs to find the right balance b/w quantity and quality. Playing 24 plus teams dilutes the quality of domestic cricket because regions and teams which barely have 1-2 decent players are now being forced to field teams of 15 players and out of no where the amount of double centuries have gone up in domestic cricket which most likely came against very low quality bowling attacks

- He is also critical of the PCB for holding these domestic games in stadiums, pitches where the public is completely unaware of and unlikely to come. The PCB needs to hold these domestic games at the likes of National Bank National Stadium, Bank of Punjab Qadhafi Stadium, Rawalpindi, Multan Stadium e.t.c.

- Players themselves don't know which domestic team they will play for and represent season to season. It takes a team around 2-3 seasons for its players to gell together, to understand the teams and their own strengths, weaknesses, to fight for the team. When players end up playing for a different team every season, you will only breed chaos and insecurity where players only look out for themselves as they know they only have a few games to prove themselves otherwise they will be kicked out

- He is highly critical of the PCB decision to bring the dukes ball and preparing green tops in domestic cricket. This has resulted in dibbly dobbly medium pacers who bowl at 110-120 km/hr and these medium pacers end up topping the domestic bowling charts in comparison to genuine quick bowlers, matches were ending on average in 1.5-2 days and out of 8 games he witnessed not a single game barely went into the third day. He himself mentioned an opening batsman who opened the bowling for his side with medium pace and he ended up running through the opposition team with the new ball. There is no way the PCB will ever ask these medium pacers to play for Pakistan using the Kookaburra ball because they will not have international standard speed and quality. Batsmen when facing the dukes ball on a green top end up developing the mentality to slash at every delivery outside the offstump because they are so desperate to score runs that they don't mind edges over slips or third man going for boundaries. The PCB is badly mistaken if they think this is how they will produce technically correct batters who can occupy the crease and bat, score for long periods of time.

The PCB when they see that Pakistan is struggling to produce genuine quick bowlers or batters who can bat for long time periods, they react by ordering the Kookaburra ball to be used in domestic cricket on flat wickets and the end result is you have bowlers struggling to take wickets and average batters topping the batting charts.

If the PCB wants to use the Dukes ball in domestic cricket then they need to prepare flat wickets because the Dukes ball still provides reasonable assistance to the bowlers when the ball gets older but batsmen also have a chance to score runs. Similarly if the PCB wants to use the Kookaburra ball in domestic cricket then they have to prepare pitches with assistance for the bowlers

- However he feels like England uses the Dukes Ball in England, Australia and South Africa use the Kookaburra ball in their conditions, India uses the SCG ball in India, Similarly the PCB needs to use the Grey's ball in Pakistan as that is the best ball for Pakistani conditions. The greys ball swings, seams in Pakistan, when the ball gets softer, it aids spin, reverse swing and batsmen are able to play shots as well. Spinners will be able to bowl long spells.

- The PCB and the broadcasters need to stream the domestic games live on tv or their Youtube channels. This drives home the message to the players that there is no value of domestic cricket and the domestic players struggle to handle the pressure of international cricket when they have to play live in front of the world and in jam packed stadiums.

- He is critical of the PCB's selection restrictions in domestic cricket for lacking flexibility i.e. PCB has imposed age restrictions where domestic teams cannot select players above 35 years of age, a team cannot have 3 wicket keepers, if the other two wicket keepers are very good batters and better batsmen then some of the other batsmen, are you going to prevent them from playing for their teams as a regular batsman? Similarly, the PCB has a rule that you have to play atleast 3 pacers in every match even if the wicket is dry, soft and aiding spin. Similarly, the PCB has a rule that an opener can only be replaced by another opener, not a middle order batsman, if the same openers keep failing for ten matches in a row, the team still has to stick to the same openers even if the middle order batsmen sitting on the bench are equally talented players. All the selections, decisions in the domestic team's playing elevens happen as per the PCB rules and directives, the coaches have no say to select their teams based on the conditions. The coaches don't revolt or say anything against the PCB because they want to save their jobs

- Such is the low quality nature of Pakistan's domestic cricket that if the likes of Babar, Rizwan, Shaheen play domestic games, they will spend the entire day taking selfies from their star struck fellow players

- He guarantees that if the PCB just gets these basic things right and actually improves the quality of domestic cricket, the quality of the players, selections, balls, pitches, the results will automatically reflect on the performances of the national team
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Some really good points made. This is where pros and ex Pros could be used to as advisory groups. @emranabbas look at his points on the quality of domestic cricket.
 
Quaid Azam trophy after 5 match only three top teams will play triangular till final what a mockery, player need at least 10 red ball game
 
Sohaib Maqsood himself was a mediocre player, he is crying foul now because he will probably not be selected for PSL going forward.

Absolutely pathetic batsmen, not one impactful international performance...

Not sure why anyone would want to learn form his experiences...
 
FearlessRoar said:
He is speaking out on the right issue that desperately needs attention

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One of the regret I had , I could not make it to first class cricket although played lots of top level club cricket in Lahore and played for university , narrowly missed chance to play grade-2 Patron's trophy ( non-FC), due to studies and because there were so many players available who were better than me , but now after the recent reversal of QAE Trophy, every street level player is playing FC cricket . There is already lack of talent and interest among the youngsters and now that limited talent has been diluted by increasing the number of teams . Last model of 6 teams was good and players financial care could have been achieved by sponsorships but it was abolished for the sake of it. NO wonder the gap between our domestic level and international level is widening with rapid pace.
 
usman.sandhu said:
Sohaib Maqsood himself was a mediocre player, he is crying foul now because he will probably not be selected for PSL going forward.

Absolutely pathetic batsmen, not one impactful international performance...

Not sure why anyone would want to learn form his experiences...
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Does not matter what kind of player he was but he is right what he is saying.
 
usman.sandhu said:
Sohaib Maqsood himself was a mediocre player, he is crying foul now because he will probably not be selected for PSL going forward.

Absolutely pathetic batsmen, not one impactful international performance...

Not sure why anyone would want to learn form his experiences...
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What a strange response to legitimate points & criticisms by Maqsood. Do only top players get the credibility to criticize PCB and point out legitimate issues?

PCB and its domestic system are a complete joke and he makes good points. It's crazy how much criticism PCB escapes despite being such an incompetent board run by bunch of a fools & clowns.

Players always take the blame for the poor performances but no one asks why isn't there more high end talent being developed by PCB? And the ones who miraculously do come through are just here for a quick time, not a long time. Why is this? Why is it a player will get one injury and their entire career will hanging on by a thread?

Nobody constantly changes the domestic system on a whim like PCB does and the result over the past few decades speak for themselves.
 
Nasty Naz said:
What a strange response to legitimate points & criticisms by Maqsood. Do only top players get the credibility to criticize PCB and point out legitimate issues?

PCB and its domestic system are a complete joke and he makes good points. It's crazy how much criticism PCB escapes despite being such an incompetent board run by bunch of a fools & clowns.

Players always take the blame for the poor performances but no one asks why isn't there more high end talent being developed by PCB? And the ones who miraculously do come through are just here for a quick time, not a long time. Why is this? Why is it a player will get one injury and their entire career will hanging on by a thread?

Nobody constantly changes the domestic system on a whim like PCB does and the result over the past few decades speak for themselves.
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1. I agree that PCB is a pathetic organization run in the worst way possible, a case study in how not to run any organization

2. Yes, statements coming from proven and credible players certainly carry a lot more weight.

3. This is Sohaib Maqsood's ploy to seek attention, he could never prove himself and is now employing all these tactics to get someone to pick him

4. No good can come to Pakistan cricket by selecting him or by asking him for advice

5. To put this in simple words, there is no need to give Sohaib Maqsood any coverage on any forum. He's had his chance and could not perform at all.
 
moghul said:
Does not matter what kind of player he was but he is right what he is saying.
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Sorry but it does, we all can criticize PCB and we all should criticize PCB for being a very poor organization, but there is no need to give any attention to what mediocre players like Sohaib Maqsood say. This is all attention seeking in my opinion.
 
usman.sandhu said:
1. I agree that PCB is a pathetic organization run in the worst way possible, a case study in how not to run any organization

2. Yes, statements coming from proven and credible players certainly carry a lot more weight.

3. This is Sohaib Maqsood's ploy to seek attention, he could never prove himself and is now employing all these tactics to get someone to pick him

4. No good can come to Pakistan cricket by selecting him or by asking him for advice

5. To put this in simple words, there is no need to give Sohaib Maqsood any coverage on any forum. He's had his chance and could not perform at all.
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Instead of attacking the player, please focus on his points and critique what he said right or wrong.
 
usman.sandhu said:
1. I agree that PCB is a pathetic organization run in the worst way possible, a case study in how not to run any organization

2. Yes, statements coming from proven and credible players certainly carry a lot more weight.

3. This is Sohaib Maqsood's ploy to seek attention, he could never prove himself and is now employing all these tactics to get someone to pick him

4. No good can come to Pakistan cricket by selecting him or by asking him for advice

5. To put this in simple words, there is no need to give Sohaib Maqsood any coverage on any forum. He's had his chance and could not perform at all.
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Credible players? It's not like Sohaib is some sort of cheater and fraudster. Just because he didn't end up hitting his potential as a player doesn't mean his opinions are meaningless and his experience is worthless.

This type of thinking seems so embedded in Pakistani culture where an average or below average cricketers thoughts & opinions are completely disregarded on basis of his playing skill meanwhile, top players like Waqar have been with PCB non-stop and probably been a coach for Pakistan like half a dozen times already.

Furthermore, its players like Sohaib whom have spent most of their life playing domestic than international to know & understand the inner workings of domestic, the constant changes and what he's seen work and not work. Even if this is some sort of ploy to seek attention and honestly, on his end it makes sense. His domestic career is effectively over with PCB disregarding players over age 35 so him starting up a YT channel to make some money makes sense. Regardless, he has brought up very & critical points that I doubt even the chairman knows, cares or is even aware of the systematical issues.
 
usman.sandhu said:
Sohaib Maqsood himself was a mediocre player, he is crying foul now because he will probably not be selected for PSL going forward.

Absolutely pathetic batsmen, not one impactful international performance...

Not sure why anyone would want to learn form his experiences...
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Ridiculous , the guy has played domestic cricket for many years , performed and elevated to a national player with mixed results . What exact credentials you are looking for in a player to speak about the weaknesses in the domestic cricket circuit . Rather than getting personal with Sohaib, you should have expressed your opinion on his comments .
 
Savak said:
Instead of attacking the player, please focus on his points and critique what he said right or wrong.
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I disagree, there is no need to pay any heed to what a player like Sohaib Maqsood says, right or wrong...

He can have no say in deciding where Pakistan cricket go...

PCB is indeed a very poor organization, but Sohaib Maqsood cannot tell us what to do... he is a failure and we need to accept that and move past him...
 
moghul said:
Ridiculous , the guy has played domestic cricket for many years , performed and elevated to a national player with mixed results . What exact credentials you are looking for in a player to speak about the weaknesses in the domestic cricket circuit . Rather than getting personal with Sohaib, you should have expressed your opinion on his comments .
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That is an absurd POV, he played in a broken system and has no clue what it takes to succeed at the international level..

Why would you listen to him?
 
Nasty Naz said:
Credible players? It's not like Sohaib is some sort of cheater and fraudster. Just because he didn't end up hitting his potential as a player doesn't mean his opinions are meaningless and his experience is worthless.

This type of thinking seems so embedded in Pakistani culture where an average or below average cricketers thoughts & opinions are completely disregarded on basis of his playing skill meanwhile, top players like Waqar have been with PCB non-stop and probably been a coach for Pakistan like half a dozen times already.

Furthermore, its players like Sohaib whom have spent most of their life playing domestic than international to know & understand the inner workings of domestic, the constant changes and what he's seen work and not work. Even if this is some sort of ploy to seek attention and honestly, on his end it makes sense. His domestic career is effectively over with PCB disregarding players over age 35 so him starting up a YT channel to make some money makes sense. Regardless, he has brought up very & critical points that I doubt even the chairman knows, cares or is even aware of the systematical issues.
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He is a tried and tested failure... does not know what it takes to succeed at the international level.. there is no need to pay any attention to him...

He is bitter because no one wants to pick him for PSL... he has his own agenda...
 
Savak said:
Instead of attacking the player, please focus on his points and critique what he said right or wrong.
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I will have a go at any player who was a disaster in his playing days and is now coming out to teach us right from wrong...

What has he done to give us any advice? He was disaster when playing for Pakistan, clearly refused to put in any effort on his fitness and could not perform at all...

As a nation, please let us stop taking advice from losers...

Like I said, PCB is one of the most mismanaged organizations on the planet, but Sohaib Maqsood has no credentials to set it straight...

He is having a go at PCB out of bitterness at probably not being picked by any team in PSL, not because he wants to fix anything...
 
What sohaib is saying is right. Sohaib himself has not loved up to his potential and that is a fact but it does not mean that the things he said are not credible.

We all know how bad PCB as an organization is.
 
moghul said:
Typical desi mentality.
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Listening to him in this case would be typical desi mentality - "listen to tried and tested failures to fix our cricket"

No wonder we cannot improve - mentalities like yours dominate the landscape and prevent any improvements from being made...

Some introspection would do a lot of good for you...
 
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