What can Pakistan selectors learn from their ruthless counterparts in Australia?

[MenInG]

Whereas I don't advocate knee jerk reactions to our 1st Test defeat there is something of a message which we could deliver to some players hanging on to their places in the Pakistan team

Could the axe wielding ways of Australia selectors be used for our own benefit?

 

[New Yorker]

Whereas I don't advocate knee jerk reactions to our 1st Test defeat there is something of a message which we could deliver to some players hanging on to their places in the Pakistan team

Could the axe wielding ways of Australia selectors be used for our own benefit?

This is the worst way to ring changes. After one Test? Smacks of desperation and lack of foresight. For Pakistan the perfect time for bringing in new blood, including inducting a new ODI captain, was the Windies series and the selectors bottled it.

 

[proud_pakistani]

Pakistan has been fairly consistent in Tests while Australia lost 5 tests on the trot, 2 of them at home. So the comparison for now is not valid.

 

[Junaids]

Whereas I don't advocate knee jerk reactions to our 1st Test defeat there is something of a message which we could deliver to some players hanging on to their places in the Pakistan team

Could the axe wielding ways of Australia selectors be used for our own benefit?

Just one single lesson.

You need to continuously regenerate the Test side so that several older players don't go past their best at the same time, and obstruct the development of younger players.

Misbah and Younis ARE Rogers and Voges - only five years older.

Wholesale changes are just an admission that the Aussie use of veteran stopgaps has ruined the development of younger batsmen.

And the leap to Matt Renshaw and Peter Handscomb and Nic Maddinson - all of them born in the 1990s - is an admission that it's too late to give the 25-29 generation the opportunities they needed to develop.

 

[New Yorker]

Just one single lesson.

You need to continuously regenerate the Test side so that several older players don't go past their best at the same time, and obstruct the development of younger players.

Misbah and Younis ARE Rogers and Voges - only five years older.

Wholesale changes are just an admission that the Aussie use of veteran stopgaps has ruined the development of younger batsmen.

And the leap to Matt Renshaw and Peter Handscomb and Nic Maddinson - all of them born in the 1990s - is an admission that it's too late to give the 25-29 generation the opportunities they needed to develop.

spot on

 

[MenInG]

This is the worst way to ring changes. After one Test? Smacks of desperation and lack of foresight. For Pakistan the perfect time for bringing in new blood, including inducting a new ODI captain, was the Windies series and the selectors bottled it.

Agreed

We never had a better chance then that series

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

If Pakistan were to.lose 0-2 at home (UAE) then such reactions will come. How many changes did Aus make while getting thrashed in India, UAE and Sri Lanka?

 

[Shafi]

Nothing will be changed. Same players will be playing again and again. Saw it for last 15 years. Our selectors are not brave enough. Inzi is not any better than Haroon or Sallu. They always bring 1 or 2 new players after 5-6 series failure

 

[Convict]

If Pakistan were to.lose 0-2 at home (UAE) then such reactions will come. How many changes did Aus make while getting thrashed in India, UAE and Sri Lanka?

Well thats the thing isn't it.

The Australian cull here is a recognition by the selectors that the team has been allowed to stagnate in mediocrity with strong home performances covering up the need to actually proactively change things.

Evidently that can not be allowed to continue so its time to actually start building in the right direction.

It is a reflection of failures of the previous people in charge - the coach, the national performance manager and the selectors that such a massive cull has to happen at once.

They failed.

Just because Australia failed doesn't mean Pakistan have to wait 1-2 years down the track and either make the same drastic changes or just be stagnant for half a decade.

 

[ExplicitAI]

The best thing is to axe Azhar as ODI captain and replace him with Sarfraz which will allow us to compete with elite ODI sides like SA, Ind, Aus, NZ and Eng. We will continue to flounder under Azhar who will literally repeat the same thing every post match presentation.

 

[Junaids]

Well thats the thing isn't it.

The Australian cull here is a recognition by the selectors that the team has been allowed to stagnate in mediocrity with strong home performances covering up the need to actually proactively change things.

Evidently that can not be allowed to continue so its time to actually start building in the right direction.

It is a reflection of failures of the previous people in charge - the coach, the national performance manager and the selectors that such a massive cull has to happen at once.

They failed.

Just because Australia failed doesn't mean Pakistan have to wait 1-2 years down the track and either make the same drastic changes or just be stagnant for half a decade.

To be fair to successive Pakistan selection panels, they have only bottled two big decisions - when to replace Younis Khan with Babar Azam (which should have been October 2014) and when to replace Misbah-ul-Haq (which probably should have been August 2016).

By putting off those two decisions they have left a mess which is going to descend fairly shortly. Either two elderly batsmen will fail together, or two huge personalities will exit in glory together.

The other errors have been smaller. Mohammad Hafeez should never have been selected after South Africa in 2012-13, but Mickey Arthur tidied that mess up.

The other smaller mess relates to a quick bowling all-rounder. We all know that there isn't a good enough one, but the A team tours of England and Zimbabwe should have groomed Aamer Yamin, Amad Butt and maybe even Hammad Azam. The failure to even try is astonishing.