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[VIDEOS] “If new team management comes, I will be available for national selection" : Mohammad Amir
Amir on the warpath - but is this all necessary?
Lahore: Pacer Mohammad Amir has once again lashed out at the national team’s head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis’s management skills.
The 28-year-old Amir hailed the cricketing career of Misbah and Waqar but reminded them that coaching requires a different mindset.
“Vicky Bhai (Waqar Younis) was a legendary pacer while Misbah was a great captain but mindset with players while coaching is a different education,” he said while talking to reporters in Lahore.
“It’s not necessary that a good player can be a good coach too,” he added.
Amir also said that if his selection was based on performance, the management would have talked to me.
“Their welcoming gesture was for media only but it’s something else from inside. They should have definitely talked to me but they side-lined me. Things have gone too far and I have no plan to return,” he added.
Amir clarified that he is not bigger than the system and his stance will not change regarding this management.
“I don’t want to waste my time and take the place of a deserving candidate in the team. I believe that if a player is not mentally fresh he can’t deliver,” he concluded.
https://arysports.tv/good-player-coaching-requires-different-mindset-misbah-waqar/
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More quotes:
"If new management comes into place, I will myself let the Board know that I will be available for selection; It wont be the case that I should be selected just because my name is Mohammad Amir because I will perform and prove that I am better than the others"
About statement from Pak Team Management that their hearts are open to Amir's return and doors to selection are open
"This they have said to the media, if they really felt that way they would have spoken to me instead of saying things about me; I don't think I can play again due to the way things have moved on"
"I am not saying that the PCB should sack them as PCB brought them into their system based upon some criteria; As a cricketer he was very good as Vicky Bhai was a legend of the game, and Misbah Bhai was a good captain but to have the right mindset with players requires a different training as a coach and is an education in itself"
"If you tell me that just because I know a little bit about bowling, I can teach some bowler how to bowl that that is not the case as for that you need a certain type of education and also the right type of temperament so that you know how to handle players"
"I don't think I can play (in a team) with their kind of mindset"
"I didn't retire because of a lack of performances or after being dropped from the team, my issue was a different one"
"Yesterday Vicki Bhai confirmed my feelings when he said that he was saddened by Amir's statements; So I am glad that he knows that statements by people can hurt the feelings of others. I said something true which has caused sadness to him. But, he has been saying things like Amir has ditched us, or hasn't left Test cricket because of workloads - he just doesn't want to play - so these were the statements that were causing me sadness, and mentally upsetting me"
"I was being schooled about the fact that I should have gone into domestic cricket and performed there but as a cricketer you know that if you are not doing well, you go to domestic cricket or a league and do well there"
"And as far as being patient is concerned, no one knows that like I do; I did not play any cricket from 2010 to 2015 where I wasn't allowed to even touch a cricket ball"
"So even then I didn't give up, so its a little silly to say that I gave up because I was dropped due to my performance"
"We have so many legends who have made many comebacks in cricket and as a cricketer you know that you have to perform in domestic cricket and you can come back to the Pakistan side"
"If they talk about performance then why when I took 20 wickets in the Bangladesh Premier League, my name was not in the team that was announced and I wasn't even told about it and no explanation was given"
"Its a little unfair on some who are selected in the Pakistan team after just one domestic game and then discarded if they don't perform well in 2 games or so"
"They say its not personal against me but then we hear statements like we only prefer those players who will play all three formats or those who play red-ball cricket - so what's that about?"
"Misbah was saying that my pace was consistently coming down but I had said twenty times that I even played the World Cup with (back) spasms"
"When your body recovers well, you can play well and in Sri Lanka I bowled at 145kph"
"One person says, its not about bowling 150kph, its about taking 20 wickets - which is what I agree with but then our Head Coach says Amir's speed had come down from 85 to 81mph so we dropped him - I would say that both these people should agree on what is right then teach Amir a lesson"
"They should also pay attention to their own performance as the Pakistan team is down - they are saying we had Covid etc - well its the same for all teams including India"
"If you keep this scary atmosphere in the dressing room, the players will give such bad performances"
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Amir on the warpath - but is this all necessary?
Lahore: Pacer Mohammad Amir has once again lashed out at the national team’s head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis’s management skills.
The 28-year-old Amir hailed the cricketing career of Misbah and Waqar but reminded them that coaching requires a different mindset.
“Vicky Bhai (Waqar Younis) was a legendary pacer while Misbah was a great captain but mindset with players while coaching is a different education,” he said while talking to reporters in Lahore.
“It’s not necessary that a good player can be a good coach too,” he added.
Amir also said that if his selection was based on performance, the management would have talked to me.
“Their welcoming gesture was for media only but it’s something else from inside. They should have definitely talked to me but they side-lined me. Things have gone too far and I have no plan to return,” he added.
Amir clarified that he is not bigger than the system and his stance will not change regarding this management.
“I don’t want to waste my time and take the place of a deserving candidate in the team. I believe that if a player is not mentally fresh he can’t deliver,” he concluded.
https://arysports.tv/good-player-coaching-requires-different-mindset-misbah-waqar/
==
More quotes:
"If new management comes into place, I will myself let the Board know that I will be available for selection; It wont be the case that I should be selected just because my name is Mohammad Amir because I will perform and prove that I am better than the others"
About statement from Pak Team Management that their hearts are open to Amir's return and doors to selection are open
"This they have said to the media, if they really felt that way they would have spoken to me instead of saying things about me; I don't think I can play again due to the way things have moved on"
"I am not saying that the PCB should sack them as PCB brought them into their system based upon some criteria; As a cricketer he was very good as Vicky Bhai was a legend of the game, and Misbah Bhai was a good captain but to have the right mindset with players requires a different training as a coach and is an education in itself"
"If you tell me that just because I know a little bit about bowling, I can teach some bowler how to bowl that that is not the case as for that you need a certain type of education and also the right type of temperament so that you know how to handle players"
"I don't think I can play (in a team) with their kind of mindset"
"I didn't retire because of a lack of performances or after being dropped from the team, my issue was a different one"
"Yesterday Vicki Bhai confirmed my feelings when he said that he was saddened by Amir's statements; So I am glad that he knows that statements by people can hurt the feelings of others. I said something true which has caused sadness to him. But, he has been saying things like Amir has ditched us, or hasn't left Test cricket because of workloads - he just doesn't want to play - so these were the statements that were causing me sadness, and mentally upsetting me"
"I was being schooled about the fact that I should have gone into domestic cricket and performed there but as a cricketer you know that if you are not doing well, you go to domestic cricket or a league and do well there"
"And as far as being patient is concerned, no one knows that like I do; I did not play any cricket from 2010 to 2015 where I wasn't allowed to even touch a cricket ball"
"So even then I didn't give up, so its a little silly to say that I gave up because I was dropped due to my performance"
"We have so many legends who have made many comebacks in cricket and as a cricketer you know that you have to perform in domestic cricket and you can come back to the Pakistan side"
"If they talk about performance then why when I took 20 wickets in the Bangladesh Premier League, my name was not in the team that was announced and I wasn't even told about it and no explanation was given"
"Its a little unfair on some who are selected in the Pakistan team after just one domestic game and then discarded if they don't perform well in 2 games or so"
"They say its not personal against me but then we hear statements like we only prefer those players who will play all three formats or those who play red-ball cricket - so what's that about?"
"Misbah was saying that my pace was consistently coming down but I had said twenty times that I even played the World Cup with (back) spasms"
"When your body recovers well, you can play well and in Sri Lanka I bowled at 145kph"
"One person says, its not about bowling 150kph, its about taking 20 wickets - which is what I agree with but then our Head Coach says Amir's speed had come down from 85 to 81mph so we dropped him - I would say that both these people should agree on what is right then teach Amir a lesson"
"They should also pay attention to their own performance as the Pakistan team is down - they are saying we had Covid etc - well its the same for all teams including India"
"If you keep this scary atmosphere in the dressing room, the players will give such bad performances"
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