Why hasn’t Pakistan Cricket seen the same small-town revolution that has impacted Indian cricket?

[Gullycricket]

Indian cricket for long was dominated by affluent and cities with good cricketing facilities like Mumbai, Delhi. However, a trend started in early 2000s with Dhoni,RP Singh, Irfan Pathan etc who came from Tier 2 cities and carried Indian cricket forward. Today, Indian cricket is thriving with players coming in droves even from Small towns.

This brings me to Pakistan team. Many posters here mention that past Pakistan cricketers were educated like Imran Khan, Wasim Akram etc while as I suppose cricketers coming now are from smaller town. However why we have not seen the same transformation in Pakistan cricket. Why these players lack confidence, have social anxiety, can't be good judges of the game?

Can anyone give me the reasons and throw some light on this? I don't think Indian tier 2 cities would be very different than Pakistani cities .

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Indian cricket for long was dominated by affluent and cities with good cricketing facilities like Mumbai, Delhi. However, a trend started in early 2000s with Dhoni,RP Singh, Irfan Pathan etc who came from Tier 2 cities and carried Indian cricket forward. Today, Indian cricket is thriving with players coming in droves even from Small towns.
This brings me to Pakistan team. Many posters here mention that past Pakistan cricketers were educated like Imran Khan, Wasim Akram etc while as I suppose cricketers coming now are from smaller town. However why we have not seen the same transformation in Pakistan cricket. Why these players lack confidence, have social anxiety, can't be good judges of the game?
Can anyone give me the reasons and throw some light on this? I don't think Indian tier 2 cities would be very different than Pakistani cities .

Indian tier 2 cities are very different to Pakistani cities. Cities like Ranchi, Indore, Bhopal etc have very high literacy rates.
It's the cog of Indian middle class values. Put your head down, work hard to achieve your dreams and move forward in life.

 

[Hitman]

Reason - One is PCB, the other is BCCI.

 

[Markhor]

Indian tier 2 cities are very different to Pakistani cities. Cities like Ranchi, Indore, Bhopal etc have very high literacy rates.
It's the cog of Indian middle class values. Put your head down, work hard to achieve your dreams and move forward in life.

Yeah good shout - standard of education in your small towns compared to Pakistan's is night and day.

Unfortunately the budget in Pakistan is dominated by interests other than education but that's a topic for TP.

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Yeah good shout - standard of education in your small towns compared to Pakistan's is night and day.

Unfortunately the budget in Pakistan is dominated by interests other than education but that's a topic for TP.

I come from one of the towns of India. Hoshiarpur is not even a Tier 5 city. But the level and quality of education, and oppurtunities to move upward are aplenty. My town itself has 98% literacy rate over the years, Good Secondary and Engineering colleges near by and decent support system. Not the best in the world, but decent enough.

You can give a good, all rounded developed childhood to your kids.

 

[latecut]

Indian tier 2 cities are very different to Pakistani cities. Cities like Ranchi, Indore, Bhopal etc have very high literacy rates.
It's the cog of Indian middle class values. Put your head down, work hard to achieve your dreams and move forward in life.

Please realise one thing. Indians and Pakistanis may look similar but lots of water has flown down the rivers during last seven decades. India has taken a path much different from the path taken by Pakistan. There is simply no comparison among Indian small towns and Pakistani small towns and the quality of people living there.

Ranchi, for instance, has been a very cosmopolitan place that openly welcomed people from all corners of India. It had excellent environment for living. Moreover, it is capital city of an Indian state so it is not really a small town. Most other so called small towns are also quite big and important places and attract talent from all over. Calling them small towns is incorrect.

 

[FastBowlingAllrounder]

One can argue that Pakistan has seen something similar with PSL allowing random players from relatively unknown backgrounds to become superstars after just 1-2 games.

However, this only exacerbates the underlying problem - none of the people coming through the Pakistani pipeline have a genuine understanding of the game, have had exposure to technical coaches from a young age (barring a few like Azam Khan due to Moin, Babar due to relative wealth, etc.), or are well-educated in general. That's why we see bits and pieces cricketers coming through who can dominate in T20s or win the odd ODI/Test matches in curated conditions but fall apart at the sign of trouble.

 

[Major]

Pakistani players are also from smaller cities.

Haris Rauf, Shadab, and Nawaz - Rawalpindi/Islamabad
Ifti/Fakhar/Rizwan/Shaheen/Waseem jr - Mardan, Waziristan, Khyber Agency and other towns around Peshawar
Abdullah Shafiq - Sialkot

Only Saud/Babar/Salman are from major cities.

Rawalpindi and Islamabad are smaller cities interms of cricket. Basically in our country the cricket structure is such that players from smaller cities and towns move to major cities like Karachi or Lahore to play cricket. Rawalpindi/Islamabad gets alot of cricketers from KPK.

KPK produces massive number of cricketers now, and its no more a Lahore vs Karachi thing. In future it will become a Lahore vs KPK thing

KPK is producing alot of players

 

[latecut]

If someone wants to know about Ranchi, that was made famous by Dhoni, just ask me. I lived there for two decades. That was before Dhoni was even born.

 

[Major]

Indian tier 2 cities are very different to Pakistani cities. Cities like Ranchi, Indore, Bhopal etc have very high literacy rates.
It's the cog of Indian middle class values. Put your head down, work hard to achieve your dreams and move forward in life.

in our side the literacy and cricket standard trend is reverse.

Our cricketers most of them dont even have 10th grade education even.

 

[BouncerGuy]

There has been some discussion about a small-town revolution in Pakistan cricket, but it may not have been as pronounced or widespread as in India. In my opinion, its reasons may include cricket infrastructure, access to training and resources, and the structure of domestic cricket in Pakistan.

 

[Vikram1989]

Coming from a small town near bangalore, I can add one more thing .small town kids have to always compete against the unknown enemy from the city. Everyone will say a city kid will chew small town kid,so small town kid has to be at his best all the times and very flexible/adaptive..There is no second chance generally.

 

[FearlessRoar]

90% of Pakistani players are from small towns.