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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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 15th June 2007
As per the latest news reports, the Jamaican police have confirmed that Bob Woolmer died of natural causes and was not murdered as many had been led to believe. This also opens another can of worms for the police authorities as rumors have it that Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) may sue the department. However, what is still not clear is that why was Woolmer declared to be murdered when the police did not have enough evidence. Or is it because this is now being a cover-up. In the world of international politics, anything is possible and there will always be suspicions on whatever is ultimately decided.
Published by Nanda on 3rd March 2007
The PCB keeps finding itself in more and more trouble. This time the ICC has demanded proof of the so-called “injuries” to Shoaib and Asif before their replacements can be added to the Pakistani squad. If PCB fails to provide sufficient evidence that Shoaib and Asif are injured then Pakistan will have a 13 member squad to play with. This will surely be a disaster for their campaign and this is another instance of complete lack of professionalism from the PCB. Rather than suspending Shoaib and Asif, they are risking the future of their entire cricket administration.
Published by Nanda on 2nd March 2007
The Pakistan Cricket Board have officially announced that both Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif are not going to participate in this year’s World Cup due to “fitness” problems. This marks an end to weeks of speculation regarding these two players and comes hours after an ICC release that players will be “target-tested” during the World Cup.
Both Shoaib and Asif had been banned from playing cricket for 2 years and 1 year respectively due to a failed dope-test. However, the ban was soon removed on grounds that the players took the banned substances unknowingly. This had made the ICC furious and the decision to target-test players must definitely be a direct result of this.
However, now that both Shoaib and Asif are out “injured”, Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer and skipper Inzamam ul-Haq will have a difficult task on their hands.
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