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Younis Khan speaking to the press today:
"We haven't come here to fight, we have come here to win. I always try to make the players feel that we're not trying to fight back. If we do that then we'll have that mindset all the time. So for all the players, I try to tell them that we are here to play good cricket, not to fight back.
"Your mindset is very important. I played all my cricket with my mindset. I may not have the best skills or the best fitness but the mindset is very important for me and I am trying to work on that with the players. So I am hopeful that when we meet each other after a month, it'll be on a good note."
"It's easier to be a student than a teacher. You make a mistake then you can make up for it but as a teacher if you make a mistake, you have nowhere to go. For me, it was easy as a player because I had to look after myself. But when you become a leader, coach, or part of a coaching staff, you need to handle different characters. Some are aggressive like me, some are more reserved and defensive.
"I am a batting consultant but for me the fast-bowlers are also very important. They are part of the side and they are my and Pakistan's players. They are like my brothers and some of them are even the age of my son Awais Khan, they are small."
"It's important for me when I speak to the batsmen that you have to focus on one ball at a time, no matter who the bowler is. Make things simple for yourself. I don't tell them to focus on bouncer, inswing, outswing. I try to give them information but I also want to simplify it. It's easy to say to focus on each ball but you need to improve your focus level.
"We all know that you can't change a player's technique overnight. It's easy for me to tell a batsman to use a certain technique but that's difficult for him when he has been playing for 20 years and has the biomechanics for a certain technique. So for these young players, we try to keep things simple but also give them a lot of information, and keep them calm.
"You focus on one ball at any given moment. One ball cannot be inswing, outswing, and bouncer. It will be either one of them so I try to simplify things for the batsmen."
"Fawad Alam has big performances and when we talk about the domestic structure, he has been a top performer which is why he's here. Whenever I spoke to him during the last few years, I always told him that if it's in his destiny and he's performing and fit, he will get a chance and now he's in the squad. I firmly believe that whenever he gets a chance, he will perform because he is a player who has performed so much and given sacrifice.
"It's difficult for a player to keep performing in domestic cricket year after year. Motivating oneself becomes difficult. So I am giving him motivation to continue with his work ethic and if Allah has written performances in his destiny then it will happen.
"When I played cricket, I didn't have some skills and I had a few things missing but with my hard work, I saw my destiny changing. So I am certain that Fawad Alam will perform whenever he gets the chance."
"What I learnt from Bob Woolmer as Coach was to understand how he dealt with a different persons like Younis Khan, and Mohammad Yousuf, or how he dealt with captain Inzamam-ul-Haq in the same team; the team also had characters like Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi who needed attention as did the likes of Kamran Akmal; So in the same way I am watching Asad Shafiq to see what is stopping him from performing in his batting"
"Since we have come to England, I have tried my best to bond with Babar Azam; And this not just true for senior players in the side, I have the same attitude towards the youngest players like Haider Ali and Rohail Nazir (when he was with us) and the idea is to give the same amount of time to the youngest and senior most players"
"There is no doubt in our or the world's minds about Babar's abilities"
"It is important for me and that is what I am teaching Babar is that he needs to take his performances up a notch; He is an excellent player but I would like to convert his current performances to bigger ones; so if he scores a 100 then he should go on to score 150, if he scores 150 then he should convert that to 200 and so on"
"Because, not only does he need to become a good player but he needs to aim to become a legendary batsman or even a legendary cricketer"
"So my aim is to shine his skills more, so that he can perform in a way which allows the Pakistan team to win games and so that we all can become proud of him - not that we arent proud of him now"
"My efforts are geared to help senior players Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq to put in match winning performances"
"As far as comparison is concerned for Babar with other players - I feel that this should not happen"
"When I came on the scene, and performed in just one or 2 games, I was compared with the great Inzamam-ul-Haq; It was said that look Younis Khan is here so we dont need Inzamam or Ijaz Ahmed; Even at that young age, I asked for no comparisons to be made"
"In the same way, when Sohail Tanvir came on the scene, he was compared to Wasim Akram so it seems we tend to start comparing players too early and that places additional pressure on the players; Instead we should allow them time to achieve their goals then the pressure will be less; I understand that we need these comparisons for the sake of media but it does put pressure"
"I feel that Babar Azam is in his own class but I would like to improve that for him in the future"
"We haven't come here to fight, we have come here to win. I always try to make the players feel that we're not trying to fight back. If we do that then we'll have that mindset all the time. So for all the players, I try to tell them that we are here to play good cricket, not to fight back.
"Your mindset is very important. I played all my cricket with my mindset. I may not have the best skills or the best fitness but the mindset is very important for me and I am trying to work on that with the players. So I am hopeful that when we meet each other after a month, it'll be on a good note."
"It's easier to be a student than a teacher. You make a mistake then you can make up for it but as a teacher if you make a mistake, you have nowhere to go. For me, it was easy as a player because I had to look after myself. But when you become a leader, coach, or part of a coaching staff, you need to handle different characters. Some are aggressive like me, some are more reserved and defensive.
"I am a batting consultant but for me the fast-bowlers are also very important. They are part of the side and they are my and Pakistan's players. They are like my brothers and some of them are even the age of my son Awais Khan, they are small."
"It's important for me when I speak to the batsmen that you have to focus on one ball at a time, no matter who the bowler is. Make things simple for yourself. I don't tell them to focus on bouncer, inswing, outswing. I try to give them information but I also want to simplify it. It's easy to say to focus on each ball but you need to improve your focus level.
"We all know that you can't change a player's technique overnight. It's easy for me to tell a batsman to use a certain technique but that's difficult for him when he has been playing for 20 years and has the biomechanics for a certain technique. So for these young players, we try to keep things simple but also give them a lot of information, and keep them calm.
"You focus on one ball at any given moment. One ball cannot be inswing, outswing, and bouncer. It will be either one of them so I try to simplify things for the batsmen."
"Fawad Alam has big performances and when we talk about the domestic structure, he has been a top performer which is why he's here. Whenever I spoke to him during the last few years, I always told him that if it's in his destiny and he's performing and fit, he will get a chance and now he's in the squad. I firmly believe that whenever he gets a chance, he will perform because he is a player who has performed so much and given sacrifice.
"It's difficult for a player to keep performing in domestic cricket year after year. Motivating oneself becomes difficult. So I am giving him motivation to continue with his work ethic and if Allah has written performances in his destiny then it will happen.
"When I played cricket, I didn't have some skills and I had a few things missing but with my hard work, I saw my destiny changing. So I am certain that Fawad Alam will perform whenever he gets the chance."
"What I learnt from Bob Woolmer as Coach was to understand how he dealt with a different persons like Younis Khan, and Mohammad Yousuf, or how he dealt with captain Inzamam-ul-Haq in the same team; the team also had characters like Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi who needed attention as did the likes of Kamran Akmal; So in the same way I am watching Asad Shafiq to see what is stopping him from performing in his batting"
"Since we have come to England, I have tried my best to bond with Babar Azam; And this not just true for senior players in the side, I have the same attitude towards the youngest players like Haider Ali and Rohail Nazir (when he was with us) and the idea is to give the same amount of time to the youngest and senior most players"
"There is no doubt in our or the world's minds about Babar's abilities"
"It is important for me and that is what I am teaching Babar is that he needs to take his performances up a notch; He is an excellent player but I would like to convert his current performances to bigger ones; so if he scores a 100 then he should go on to score 150, if he scores 150 then he should convert that to 200 and so on"
"Because, not only does he need to become a good player but he needs to aim to become a legendary batsman or even a legendary cricketer"
"So my aim is to shine his skills more, so that he can perform in a way which allows the Pakistan team to win games and so that we all can become proud of him - not that we arent proud of him now"
"My efforts are geared to help senior players Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq to put in match winning performances"
"As far as comparison is concerned for Babar with other players - I feel that this should not happen"
"When I came on the scene, and performed in just one or 2 games, I was compared with the great Inzamam-ul-Haq; It was said that look Younis Khan is here so we dont need Inzamam or Ijaz Ahmed; Even at that young age, I asked for no comparisons to be made"
"In the same way, when Sohail Tanvir came on the scene, he was compared to Wasim Akram so it seems we tend to start comparing players too early and that places additional pressure on the players; Instead we should allow them time to achieve their goals then the pressure will be less; I understand that we need these comparisons for the sake of media but it does put pressure"
"I feel that Babar Azam is in his own class but I would like to improve that for him in the future"
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