"We deserve to be criticised for our performances" : Misbah-ul-Haq

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Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq feels his struggling team deserves every bit of the criticism that is being thrown at it after a 0-2 loss to New Zealand in the just-concluded away Test series. (More Cricket News)

Misbah has made similar statements after Pakistan lost on tours to Australia and England earlier.

"We deserve to be criticised for our performances. When people expect good performances from you and you don't deliver they are justified to criticise you," Misbah said in a podcast issued by the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Misbah said his team was below-par in all departments of the game.

"The way we fought hard in the first Test was very good and everyone expected a similar performance in the second Test but that didn't happen. We had opportunities in the series to win matches but we didn't take them," he said.

"This is something we have to look at as to why we can't cross that line between winning and losing a match. I have seen it happen many times in recent matches," he said.

He said fielding has always been a problem for the Pakistan team and this trend needs to change now.

"These things ultimately affected the result of the series. We need to improve our fielding," he said.

Misbah said the team management will analyse the mistakes made in the New Zealand series before finalising any changes for the upcoming home series against South Africa.

"We will look at making changes according to the home conditions and the South African team. We may also consider top performers from the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for the South African series," he concluded.

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LAHORE: Head coach of Pakistan Misbah-ul-Haq while welcoming the criticism over his team in the backdrop of losing all two Test matches to New Zealand by big margins, terms it is because the nation has the expectations from the team due to its potential.

In a podcast released by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) here on Thursday, Misbah said: “Whosoever is criticising the team is very right and it is because the team has the potential to do better and it also showed the potential in phases.”

“If you went down while not living up to your potential you have to face the criticism. Yes we played below our potential and we have to improve our performances to come out of this scenario,” Misbah said.

“Whatever sport you play, its ultimate objective is victory and when you fail to win, it causes disappointment. On this tour, we received opportunities but wasted them. We dropped catches and that impacted our overall performance. To put it in simple words, we could not do what we can do. We could bring the matches close to the winning stages as we did in the first Test. We stretched that Test till the very end and it was a matter of just five remaining overs from earning a respectable draw.

“We have to work on our catching and as our next series is at home against South Africa, it is a good chance for us to review the overall situation to improve and increase the confidence of the players to win the series,” Misbah said.

“The home conditions will be helpful for us to give better performances, but for that to happen, we have to overcome all the loopholes,” he said.

Misbah said the best performers of the recently concluded Quaid-e-Azam Trophy would also be considered for the series against South Africa.

Published in Dawn, January 8th, 2021

 

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"We will look at making changes according to the home conditions and the South African team. We may also consider top performers from the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for the South African series," he concluded.

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Tabdeeli coming

Better to try new comers on home soil than debuting them in alien conditions

 

[lahoriyah1234]

I hope the first tabdeeli will be Misbah and Waqar are sacked. I cant believe Waqar got sacked and yet he made it back.

 

[Titan24]

Criticism doesnt serve much purpose, accountability from PCB is what is necessary here.

 

[Hasan123]

He is spot on if you don’t perform you will be criticised. I’m glad he didn’t try to play the victim.

 

[mazkhan]

For me 3 players need to be discarded ASAP and discarded for good.

Shan masood
Naseem shah
M abbas

Haris and abid ali should be on their last chance tour .

Abid ali should open with sharjeel or imam ul haq , I'm inclined towards sharjeel because imam is suspect against decent pace and anything that is short . Sharjeel has also been the best opener in qea this year.

 

[ShoaibM]

A very measured and dare I say "adult" response from our lord and saviour Misbah all hail the great ul-haq.

More seriously, I get that our fans have a lot of hatred in their hearts, but lets not forget this guy has been on the job for a very short period of time. If I was managing him, I would be very happy seeing him take responsibility like this and be open to change. While I truly understand a lot of the criticisms against the guy, and yes he deserves a lot of it, now that he has the job he also deserves a chance to show what he can do. It really is the best option for our team at the moment. If by this time next year we dont see significant improvement, maybe the knives come out at that point?

 

[Colorblind Genius]

Criticism doesnt serve much purpose, accountability from PCB is what is necessary here.

Only if we are honest and brave enough with our responsibilities and with our work.

These are bunch of shameless leaches, jinki jab tak jootay maar kar nahi nikaalo, they won't leave on their own.

 

[Shoaibbtt]

For me 3 players need to be discarded ASAP and discarded for good.

Shan masood
Naseem shah
M abbas

Haris and abid ali should be on their last chance tour .

Abid ali should open with sharjeel or imam ul haq , I'm inclined towards sharjeel because imam is suspect against decent pace and anything that is short . Sharjeel has also been the best opener in qea this year.

Haris was so bad that he should be dropped. I mean i wouldn't select him on the basis of fitness, i mean come on getting out leaving the ball late is unheard of.

Abid should be last chance yes.

I would drop Naseem but go easy on him as he's young and just been thrown into the deep end way too soon.

 

[I think therfore I am]

Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq feels his struggling team deserves every bit of the criticism that is being thrown at it after a 0-2 loss to New Zealand in the just-concluded away Test series. (More Cricket News)

Misbah has made similar statements after Pakistan lost on tours to Australia and England earlier.

"We deserve to be criticised for our performances. When people expect good performances from you and you don't deliver they are justified to criticise you," Misbah said in a podcast issued by the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Misbah said his team was below-par in all departments of the game.

"The way we fought hard in the first Test was very good and everyone expected a similar performance in the second Test but that didn't happen. We had opportunities in the series to win matches but we didn't take them," he said.

"This is something we have to look at as to why we can't cross that line between winning and losing a match. I have seen it happen many times in recent matches," he said.

He said fielding has always been a problem for the Pakistan team and this trend needs to change now.

"These things ultimately affected the result of the series. We need to improve our fielding," he said.

Misbah said the team management will analyse the mistakes made in the New Zealand series before finalising any changes for the upcoming home series against South Africa.

"We will look at making changes according to the home conditions and the South African team. We may also consider top performers from the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for the South African series," he concluded.

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It finally speaks, what a gutless individual

 

[ManFan]

Shameless.

All of PP was under his spell back in 2016, but each year, his true form reveals itself.

An embittered individual who has sought only to reap profit in whatever role he can find til the end with no improvement in the meantime.

 

[Nasty Naz]

At the end of the day, people need to come up with solutions not criticisms. Criticisms have been happening for years and for years Pakistan have been very mediocre.

Pakistan entire formula needs to change because they have been trying and doing the same thing forever and it clearly isn't working. They need to invest heavily into analytics and development coaches at lower levels so the young players are getting coached properly and aren't being forced to change their technique/arm action etc at the international level. Probably need to let them develop a bit in the domestics as well instead of calling up any decent talented 18 year old.

 

[Junaids]

Specific charges against Misbah-ul-Haq.

CHARGE 1
- You called up Abid Ali as an opener to an ageing team, who is now 33 years old.
- In the last 2 series he averages 23.88.

CHARGE 2
- You called up Fawad Alam as a middle-order batsman aged 35 to replace one aged 34.
- In the last 2 series he averages 25.00.

CHARGE 3
- You stripped the bowling attack of almost all bowlers aged in their twenties and replaced them with kids and geriatrics.
- You keep persisting with the teenage Naseem Shah, even though in his last 5 Tests across 2 series he has taken 7 wickets at an average of 71.42, with an economy rate worse than 4.

CHARGE 4
- Mickey Arthur and Inzamam had finally dropped the under-performing Yasir Shah, who is now almost 35 years old.
- In 8 Tests at home and away since you recalled him, he has taken 24 wickets at an average of 48.83.
- And even though he played one good innings with the bat, he averages 9 with the bat in his last 6 Tests.

CHARGE 5
- When you became Chief Selector and Head Coach you replaced your 31 year old captain with the 34 year old Azhar Ali, who has averaged under 10 in his previous Tests series.
- In 17 innings at home and away since you made him your captain he has failed to reach fifty in 14 of those 17 innings.

 

[YousafTheBeast]

Specific charges against Misbah-ul-Haq.

CHARGE 1
- You called up Abid Ali as an opener to an ageing team, who is now 33 years old.
- In the last 2 series he averages 23.88.

CHARGE 2
- You called up Fawad Alam as a middle-order batsman aged 35 to replace one aged 34.
- In the last 2 series he averages 25.00.

CHARGE 3
- You stripped the bowling attack of almost all bowlers aged in their twenties and replaced them with kids and geriatrics.
- You keep persisting with the teenage Naseem Shah, even though in his last 5 Tests across 2 series he has taken 7 wickets at an average of 71.42, with an economy rate worse than 4.

CHARGE 4
- Mickey Arthur and Inzamam had finally dropped the under-performing Yasir Shah, who is now almost 35 years old.
- In 8 Tests at home and away since you recalled him, he has taken 24 wickets at an average of 48.83.
- And even though he played one good innings with the bat, he averages 9 with the bat in his last 6 Tests.

CHARGE 5
- When you became Chief Selector and Head Coach you replaced your 31 year old captain with the 34 year old Azhar Ali, who has averaged under 10 in his previous Tests series.
- In 17 innings at home and away since you made him your captain he has failed to reach fifty in 14 of those 17 innings.

You keep going on about the age of the players, unless a player is debuting in his mid 30’s then I don’t see a problem.

Should we force Hafeez 3.0 to retire now before the T20 WC if age is such a big concern?

 

[Junaids]

You keep going on about the age of the players, unless a player is debuting in his mid 30’s then I don’t see a problem.

Should we force Hafeez 3.0 to retire now before the T20 WC if age is such a big concern?

You can keep a veteran or a teenager if he is performing.

The three veteran batsmen I listed:
1 averaged 24
1 averaged 25
1 didn't reach fifty in 16 out of 19 innings.

The veteran bowler averages 49 in 8 Tests at home and away.

The child bowler averages 71 with the ball in his last 5 Tests.

That makes 5 members of the starting eleven who are not performing at all, whom the rest of the team have to carry.

 

[YousafTheBeast]

You can keep a veteran or a teenager if he is performing.

The three veteran batsmen I listed:
1 averaged 24
1 averaged 25
1 didn't reach fifty in 16 out of 19 innings.

The veteran bowler averages 49 in 8 Tests at home and away.

The child bowler averages 71 with the ball in his last 5 Tests.

That makes 5 members of the starting eleven who are not performing at all, whom the rest of the team have to carry.

So if we took Hafeez out the team when he was the same age as Azhar or Abid and I don’t think he was doing that well back then, would we have seen Hafeez 3.0?

 

[Savak]

At the end of the day, people need to come up with solutions not criticisms. Criticisms have been happening for years and for years Pakistan have been very mediocre.

Pakistan entire formula needs to change because they have been trying and doing the same thing forever and it clearly isn't working. They need to invest heavily into analytics and development coaches at lower levels so the young players are getting coached properly and aren't being forced to change their technique/arm action etc at the international level. Probably need to let them develop a bit in the domestics as well instead of calling up any decent talented 18 year old.

The only long term solution is the revamp and investment in domestic cricket, the high performance academies that the PCB is doing but this is a long painful process which will take atleast 10-15 years before we start seeing results.

The short term solution for now is to get a more proven, experienced coaching staff that actually has a vision for the squad, to do away with players who have been failing for a long time and are not going to be the future of our team and to select new players who have performed in domestic cricket. Develop a vision for the squad, what kind of cricket do you want to play, which players will fit into that vision, select them, back them and fix their minor technical issues, short comings and adopt a scientific approach to the game with planning rather than just relying on luck

 

[ShoaibM]

You keep going on about the age of the players, unless a player is debuting in his mid 30’s then I don’t see a problem.

Should we force Hafeez 3.0 to retire now before the T20 WC if age is such a big concern?

Yeah this obsession with age is a bit jarring and almost completely nonsensical. If all 11 members were performing I guess thats the only time we would be happy with Misbah...

 

[jupiter2007]

You keep going on about the age of the players, unless a player is debuting in his mid 30’s then I don’t see a problem.

Should we force Hafeez 3.0 to retire now before the T20 WC if age is such a big concern?

Only way to fix it by producing quality players and players are pick based on merit and not on perchi or favoritism. If player in national team doesn't perform, he should be sent back to domestic. We need to give younger players chance so they can perform and not asking late middle batsman to open the inning and then dropping him from the team.

 

[choudhary6964]

You are the worst thing ever happened to Pakistan cricket.You have only given bad memories and nightmares to us fans.How I wish you have never played for Pakistan.
I m getting sick of this guy.PCB should kick him now.Enough is enough now.

 

[Savak]

You give Misbah a team of a Prime Wasim, Waqar, Imran, Javed Miandad, Saeed Anwar, Zaheer Abbas and co and he will still find a way to make them the most boring defensive side on the planet. Thats how panoti and contagious he is

 

[Madplayer]

Misbah has taken Pakistan downhill since 2011 in LOIs especially. His style of play in tests was only good for UAE and it was always going to fall apart in the long run because Saeed Ajmal wasnt going to play forever.

As a national coach admittedly he cant do much because for that he needs a talented crop of players with him. But even then, he was the worst possible pick due to his track record and mindset as a player and also the fact that he has no coaching credentials.

Why was he hired in the first place?

 

[Oneking]

At the end of the day, people need to come up with solutions not criticisms. Criticisms have been happening for years and for years Pakistan have been very mediocre.

Pakistan entire formula needs to change because they have been trying and doing the same thing forever and it clearly isn't working. They need to invest heavily into analytics and development coaches at lower levels so the young players are getting coached properly and aren't being forced to change their technique/arm action etc at the international level. Probably need to let them develop a bit in the domestics as well instead of calling up any decent talented 18 year old.

That’s what Misbah is getting paid for , he claimed he had cure for all the problem, not my job or any other ex cricketer or fan, unless they want the head coach role.

 

[Nasty Naz]

That’s what Misbah is getting paid for , he claimed he had cure for all the problem, not my job or any other ex cricketer or fan, unless they want the head coach role.

Just saying but no coach or selector can come in with some magic formula to make all the players that they actually are. Pakistan cricket problems lie much deeper than that and its why they have been extremely mediocre for a long time now.

 

[Shazzam]

Just saying but no coach or selector can come in with some magic formula to make all the players that they actually are. Pakistan cricket problems lie much deeper than that and its why they have been extremely mediocre for a long time now.

No coach can thats true but a coach should still have some kind of qualification for the job to begin with. You can’t write off the talent when the person managing it is a rookie on the job.

 

[TheSultan]

I don’t see anything different in what he’s said before. The only thing he’s mentioned that is different is “we deserve to be criticised” the the rest is just delusional drivel as always by him.

He is talking about crossing the line between winning and losing? We were never anywhere close to winning. The line is between losing and mildly competing.

Even the first test that he is so proud of was a loss all the way through. 2 batsmen with a monumental stand that was an exception to the norm got it close to being a draw. It had nothing to do with how the game went overall, or the tactics, planning or anything.

He always tries to give the impression that a bit of luck here n there and we would have won. Even in the England series he had the audacity to say “we were unlucky with the rain”. There was only one team in it in those matches, and if any team missed out because of the rain and was unlucky, it was England

 

[shamaan]

For me 3 players need to be discarded ASAP and discarded for good.

Shan masood
Naseem shah
M abbas

Haris and abid ali should be on their last chance tour .

Abid ali should open with sharjeel or imam ul haq , I'm inclined towards sharjeel because imam is suspect against decent pace and anything that is short . Sharjeel has also been the best opener in qea this year.

What about haris sohail ?

 

[shamaan]

You keep going on about the age of the players, unless a player is debuting in his mid 30’s then I don’t see a problem.

Should we force Hafeez 3.0 to retire now before the T20 WC if age is such a big concern?

Age is a concern if you aint performing and rightly so

 

[Colorblind Genius]

What he is telling the Pak cricket fans is that “you guys keep on blabbering if that pleases you but I am not going anywhere.”