Published by Nanda on 16th July 2007
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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Arch rivals meet today for a charity match in Glasgow, Scotland. India will take on Pakistan in the only ODI for which all the proceeds will be going to Prince Charles’ charity. Since this match has official ODI status from ICC, expect all hell to break loose.
India are fresh from their series victory over number 2 ranked South Africa. Considered by many as a waste of time when India lost the first match, the team’s recovery has been nothing short of phenomenal. Over half the squad is not fully fit and to come back after losing a close first match reaffirms the faith this team demands. There have been a lot of positives so far for India. Piyush Chawla has bowled superbly for his first major series. Yuvraj, Tendulkar and Dravid are back amongst the runs. Zaheer has got his rhythm going. Agarkar and RP Singh bowled superbly, although the latter failed to grab wickets in the final match.
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Published by Nanda on 25th June 2007
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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Published by Nanda on 21st June 2007
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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