Saturday, October 07, 2006

Pakistan Cricket- an example of musical chair game played to perfection

If any of the aspiring children of our times wants to master the art of musical chair game they need not look beyond Pak Cricket. Change seems to have become a way of life rather than an exception for Pakistani Cricket and what's happening is truly bewildering stuff worth a celluloid bollywood script. Let's look at some of those changes till this minute.
Zaheer Abbas sacked as team manager
Inzy banned for four one day matches by ICC referee for the Oval fiasco
Younis Khan appointed captain only for the champion’s trophy
Mustaq Ahamad appointed assistant bowling coach
Younis khan walks out of captaincy saying he does not want to be a dummy captain
Mohammed Yousuf appointed captain and Razzaq his deputy
Sharyar Khan sacked as Pak Cricket board chairman
Dr. Naseem Ashraf(?) appointed as chairman in his place
Bob Woolmer says that new chairman is happy with Yousuf as captain and no changes expectedImmediately
New chief announces reinstatement of Younis Khan as Captain and Yousuf demoted as vice captain
Mustaq Ahamed is sacked as assistant bowling coach
I can hear somebody saying STOP! Head is reeling. Can you imagine the state of mind of the players and their morale which is already shattered after the Oval fiasco with all these mindless changes? Sad that a great bunch of cricketers are now being forced in to such an un certain future when they have all the potential to win the ICC trophy as well as being a serious contender for the world cup in 5 months. I have always felt that Younis Khan with all that fierce motivation and exuberance around him was a much better captain than Inzy, however great a player Inzy has been and if Younis is allowed to continue till world cup in spite of all these mess he may still motivate the team to much greater heights.

Let me finish fast since by the time I close the changes would become old news and further changes might have taken place in Pak Cricket!
RK

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well Said Ram I totally agree with you but our children cannot learn the game as the muscial chair has some certainity for a set time, here the PCB does not fit into the normal rules of the game that is the reason our children cannot learn the nuances of the game by folowing Pakistani Criket. One more fact is that the Cricket a Gentleman's sport is really ridiculed by PCB, and President of the country is involving himself personally in the board's activities is a shame. If he calls it as Vision Pakistan initiative then it is a big joke, there can be uncertainity in life but life cannot be uncertain like this, captaincy is not a child game it requires a lot of maturity and one has to be clear mentally and physically to take the rolw on and off th efield. With Media hounds watching it will be definetely a tough task for any human being. So to conclude becoming Pakistan teams captain is a demotion and not a promotion

10/08/2006 12:53 PM  

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