We have heard what Mr. Sethi intends to do about departmental cricket and other areas but what would be your advice to him? What areas of Pakistan cricket does he need to look at and improve?
1) Focus primarily on test and first class cricket. The PSL is doing just fine.
2) Build on the existing FC structure instead of just dismantling and restarting all over again. Keep elements that have been a success - for example the television coverage has give domestic players more visibility and helped their case for selection via performance. Other examples are use of a kakuburra ball instead of the awful local SG one. Fewer teams has improved the quality of cricket- we don’t need more teams unless we start producing more quality cricketers from the grassroot levels. The pitches showed some improvement (at least in pindi) but more work needs to be done.
2) Push for result oriented pitches in test matches. Do not allow team management to dictate.
3) Don’t bring back old recycled unsuccessful names onto the selection panel.
4) Restart “A” tours which is something Raja completely ignored. We need the bench strength to get exposure and opportunity.
5) negotiate more tests to be added in the next cycle. Even if they can’t be part of the test champsionship so be it. Play Ireland in the summer if we can’t find any other opportunities. 6-7 tests annually are just not enough if we are serious about test cricket.