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Lawson was offered a 2 year contract as Pakistan’s next cricket coach which he has accepted. It is said that his bowling skills got him the job considering that Pakistan’s strength has always been pace bowling. Lawson managed to edge out fellow Aussies Dav Whatmore and Richard Done. Dav Whatmore now has been snubbed by all Asian teams including India, where he had expressed his desire to coach. This time, it seems, Ranatunga’s remarks probably worked against him.

PCB chairman, MrNasim Ashraf was quoted as saying:

“We weighed all our options and, though all three were highly qualified, we felt Lawson was most suitable to our needs. Dav Whatmore and Richard Done were not any less candidates, just that Lawson was what we needed.”

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Indiatimes.com have reported that the PCB has confirmed Whatmore to be their next coach. The following excerpt gives more info:

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has in principle decided to sign on Australian Dav Whatmore as its national team coach but will make an official announcement in a week’s time.

If this is correct, then the BCCI officials should never be allowed to choose another foreign coach for Team India. The committee should be changed. And will someone please have the balls to tell Gavaskar that he should probably coach his own son who is struggling in domestic cricket, rather than messing up Indian cricket by giving his weird suggestions.

The one to discard Whatmore as Indian coach had to be him. Shastri was pretty impressed and so were Pawar and Niranjan Shah when they met Whatmore in Bangladesh. Shah even went on to say that Whatmore was the frontrunner as the new Indian coach. And it all changed when this idiot sat in the committee. And suggesting John Emburey’s name remains an even greater mystery. According to Mr Gavaskar, India cannot find a better coach than Emburey whose record suggests that he was never a good coach right from his first assignment.

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In what could be a major turn of events, Dav Whatmore could end up being coach of Pakistan. After being dropped unceremoniously from the race to be India’s coach, this could be his way of getting revenge. Pakistan and India have the fiercest rivalry in cricket, matching that of Australia and England. And if chosen as Pakistan’s coach, Whatmore will get plenty of opportunities to beat India and show the BCCI the blunder they committed on one man’s whim. That man being Sunil Gavaskar, who is completely out of tune with how cricket is played these days.

As an Indian, I had hoped that Whatmore would head towards India, however the treatment that he received from the BCCI has made me feel ashamed and I hope he gets the job at Pakistan and beat India in India later on this year.

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This million dollar question, and we are talking about a million bucks, seems to be on every Indian cricket fan’s minds. The BCCI loves to create suspense and no matter how unprofessional it seems, the board does know how to keep everyone tantalised. First there was Dav Whatmore, then we have Graham Ford and now John Emburey. Even Arjuna Ranatunga was mentioned by a few newspapers. So, who will be Team India’s next coach.

The bets are in favour of Ford as he has been far more successful than John. And if there was a choice between these two, then I would personally back Ford. What India needs is a confident coach who believes in his abilities and should be able to deal with politics. As far as John Emburey is concerned, he has the backing of Sunil Gavaskar. Even Greg Chappell had Gavaskar’s backing, and we all know how that one turned out for India.
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