Loud Thinking March 20, 2014 at 11:02AM
March 20th, 2014 | 
Author: World Twenty20: Hafeez, Pakistan team management at loggerheads?
KARACHI: Trouble seems to be brewing in the Pakistan cricket team in the ongoing World Twenty20 Championships in Bangladesh with speculation rife of differences between skipper Mohammed Hafeez and the team management.
There are reports that Hafeez is not seeing eye to eye with the team management which includes head coach Moin Khan, cricket consultant Zaheer Abbas and manager Zakir Khan on a number of issues within the team specially on selection matters.
“It is not a good sign for Pakistan cricket that such rumours are even circulating before the start of our campaign in a world event. I just hope they are not true but definitely I would like to see the Pakistan cricket Board step-in and talk to all the main stakeholders in the team so that the team can focus on winning the tournament,” former head coach and chief selector Mohsin Khan said.
Rumours started circulating after Hafeez made some caustic comments about the head coach and cricket consultant referring to their lack of experience in modern cricket and how the sport had changed in the last couple of years.
Similar rumours had also circulated when the team returned from the Asia Cup.
“Yes there are indications that Moin, Zaheer and the fielding coach Shoaib Muhammad in particular feel that Pakistan needs a new captain for future assignments and the names of Shahid Afridi and Younis Khan are being taken frequently now,” one source close to the team said.
There are question-marks over whether Hafeez will be able to sustain the pressure of playing India in Friday’s high-pressure tournament-opener.
Hafeez was captain when Pakistan lost to India in the last World T20 Cup in Sri Lanka in 2012.
“Definitely if you compare Hafeez with Mahendra Singh Dhoni than you can see a visible difference but the thing in his favour is that he is a senior player and an ideal all-rounder for T20 format,” former cricketer Basit Ali said.
Interestingly, neither Afridi nor Younis have made any attempts to reject talk about them being candidates for the captaincy and both have said if such a situation arises, they will give it a serious thought.
Pakistan won the 2009 World Twenty20 under Younis while Afridi led them to the semifinals of the event in 2010.
Loud Thinking March 19, 2014 at 10:44PM
Today our team got all out at 71 and broke our own lowest score record in a T20 match (practice or international) of 74 runs created in 2012 vs Australia.
Let us see what is the threshold of the poor performance for the PCB, to sack the responsible tour management members and nincompoop coaches, because there is a definite decline in the team’s performance?
We will also see how much moral responsibility is shouldered by the honourable PCB top guns?
Loud Thinking March 19, 2014 at 10:13PM
By scoring 71 runs in 17.3 overs Pakistan has created a new lowest T20 match score.
The details of previous lowest score details of Pakistan in a T20 match are as below:
Pakistan score 74 Overs19.1 Run Rate 3.88 in 2nd innings vs Australia at Dubai on 10 Sep 2012.
Note:- today’s match was not a recognised international match, it was just a practise match.
Loud Thinking March 19, 2014 at 04:41PM
Mr. PM..! Trade with honour not trade of honour
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
AoA.
We take this opportunity to earnestly appeal to your honour that you should not bow before the Indians, like the dictator Pervaiz Musharraf fell to their feet, when he unilaterally allowed India to erect the fence, at the LOC of Kashmir.
As per international law, border fencing is only allowed and can be done, at the fringes of the recognised international borders only. That was the specific reason, why Pakistan never allowed fencing of borders by India, even at the working boundary i.e., the area of Indian held Kashmir bordering Pakistan’s international borders.
Mian Sahab, Pakistan and India must make trade on an equal terms; and since, as per media reports, you have decide to accord MFN or NDMA status to India on the coming Friday, even after India has refused to withdraw, non tariff barriers (NTB’s) and custom duties; you should ensure that Pakistan also imposes NTB’s and custom duties on the Indian goods, on a reciprocal basis.
Let no body say in the posterity that democrat Mian Nawaz Sharif, also fell to the feet of the Indians (when they were not even ready to allow Pakistani TV signals and sportspersons to enter into India), just like the timid dictator Pervaiz Musharraf, who fell onto the feet of the Indians, to please the Americans, in exchange for obtaining legitimacy, of his illegal government.
With best wishes and all the better hopes that you will never allow Pakistani flag to be lowered before the Indians, because peace is only durable, if it is to prevail on equal terms. Peace on unequal terms, is a sure recipe for war, in the future..!
Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Loud Thinking March 19, 2014 at 01:41PM
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