ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Executive Wasim Khan hopesPakistani young bowlers would rattle the Australians in the upcoming Testsand Twenty20 series beginning next month in Australia.
Pakistan would play Australia in two Tests in Brisbane (November 21 to 25)and Adelaide (November 29 to December 3) while the three T20s are scheduledfor November 3, 5 and 8.“We have seen the likes of Musa Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah in theteam. It was critical for us to do something different in the squads. Butif you do the same thing, you get the same results,” Pakpassion.net quotedWasim as saying.
He said it was important to take young guys who have a point to prove, whohave no baggage and were coming in fresh. “There was nothing to lose andwhen you are young, you don’t care about who you were playing against, youjust want to make your mark,” he said and added you won’t win with mediumpacers in Australia.
However, Wasim was of the view that players fail when they go to placeslike Australia, because the wickets in domestic cricket were not goodenough. “We need to improve the wickets as there has to maintain balancebetween bat and ball,” he said.
He said domestic cricket needed to be televised as much. “We have around 75days of televised cricket lined up over the next three years. PCB hasapproached a lot of sponsors who were keen to get involved next year. PCBwas spending a billion rupees, funding this domestic structure. It wasimportant to get sponsors on board, and then we can put more into players’wages and the more they can improve. What we pay to the players now wouldlook very different in three to five years with sponsors on board pumpingmoney into domestic cricket,” he said.
Wasim said hopefully Sri Lanka would confirm playing two Tests againstPakistan here. “We have revamped the coaching structure with a dual rolefor Misbah ul Haq of a Head Coach and Chief Selector which had beenoperating in New Zealand for 7 years and has gone well,” he said.
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He said Nadeem Khan was also brought in as a selector coordinator, he wouldbe under Misbah. “People expect instant results and success. We lost theT20s against Sri Lanka but we won the ODIs. We were quick to forget, givethe guy an opportunity.
It was a new look side and a new look structure. We have got Waqar Younisback, Yasir Malik has taken over as the strength and conditioning coach,”he said.
Wasim said we have got a two year cycle with a Test Championship, two T20World Cups and an Asia Cup. “We need to aim to be there at Lord’s for thefinal of the Test Championship. The brand of cricket we were going to playin Test cricket would be slightly different. We were going to go throughups and downs, but I think we need to be fair to Misbah and what thecoaching team was trying to do. Not everything would be right the firsttime but we were confident we would get things right with this,” he said.
