ICC ODI Would Cup-2019 and inertia of PCB..!

How to win the ODI World Cup 2019?

Dear Mr. Imran Khan Sahab.

AoA.

Sir,

In the first ODI at Sharjah vs the Australian cricket team, our boys lost the script in the first 10 overs of the power play, when only two fielders can field outside the 30 meters circle, with highly docile Test style batting, when they accumulated only 40 runs, whereas, in the last power power play of 10 overs, when five fielders are allowed outside the circle, our aggressive batting resulted in scoring 86 runs.

The above analysis proves that Imam up Haq and Shan Masood are NOT the material or horses for the opening batsmen’s slot for the ODI version of cricket. They can not take us to any success in the ODI World Cup matches, because the above named two batsmen are not capable of scoring 90+ runs in the first power play, even if, they are given opportunity to bat twice in an innings.

In this regard, despite PCB having given an uninterrupted looong free run, our selectors and so called team management (which also includes senior staff of NCA Lahore) have badly failed to produce three or four deserving openers for the ODI World Cup; and at the end of the day, Test openers are being wrongly been asked to perform the duties of the openers of the ODI games.

Mr. Prime Minister, you in your days as a playing cricketer always said and implemented the idea that in a playing eleven, every player has a specialised role, which in other words meant selecting horses for courses.

Under the circumstances, when another highly disappointing World Cup 2019 performance (just the ODI world Cup 2015) is writ large on the faces of top managers of the NCA, Selectors and the team management personnel, who get fatly paid by the PCB, the following questions must be asked by the new management of the PCB, to decide any emergent steps of changes, particularly, in the team management and in the team, as well, to salvage the situation for the ODI World Cup 2019:

NCA (High Performance Center of Excellence):

~Why no openers were groomed and polished for the World Cup who could score 90+ runs in the first power play?

~Why no power hitters produced, groomed and polished for the World Cup?

~ Why no genuine all rounders produced for the World Cup?

~ Why no fitness plan developed and implemented for the World Cup players, whereas, many of our players are looking visibly overweight and unfit; and no batsman is fit enough to run for five runs on his shot and medium pacers are bowling even below the 130 KMPH speed.

Selectors, Coaches and Captain Sarfaraz Ahmad:

~Why Shan Masood was included in the ODI team for South Africa, when he was not given a single chance to show his performance for the World Cup?

~Why Imam ul Haq given another chance against the Australian team when he was given due chances to play in all the five ODI matches in South Africa?

~ Why Rizwan was taken on tours but not given any chances?

~ If Shan Masood and Imam ul Haq have been tried from Test to ODI games why Sami Aslam and Fawad Alam has been ignored for even Test matches series, we recently lost vs New Zealand and South African teams?

~ Why Umar Amin was not considered for the five ODI matches against Australian team?

~Why Muhammad Amir has been given so many chances, when time and again, he has proved that he was a spent cartridge?

~Why players like Haris Rauf (LQ), Musa Khan(IU), Suhail Akhtar(LQ), Awais Zia (KK), Ehsan Ali(QG) and Wahab Riaz [PZ] (who bowled fastest ball in the PSL-4) have been never considered and given chances to prove their mettle for the World Cup2019 squad?

~Why players for the five matches against the Australians have not been selected on the basis of fitness test, when previously even a senior player like Umar Akmal was dropped on the basis that he could not pass the fitness test?

Most of the cautious people will argue that now there was very little time left to make changes of management and team personnel for the World Cup, which will mean that we have taken defeat or poor performance of our team, at the ODI World Cup 2019, as fait accompli, whilst, you
as our dynamite leader and Prime Minister always motivated the nation by educating that one is never defeated, till the defeat is accepted.

So, why to accept defeat even before the World Cup has started? Action is always better than inaction. PCB must act fast; and act now.

If Pakistan has to have any remote chance of playing the final of the ODI World Cup 2019, the entire team management and the selection committee along-with the complete NCA staff, needs immediate replacement; and the following may be considered as replacements for suitable positions:

1. Viv Richards
2. Zaheer Abbas
3. Majid Khan
4. Wasim Bari
5. Sarfaraz Nawaz
6. JAVED Miandad
7. Mohsin Hasan Khan
8. Moin Khan
9. Amir Suhail
10. Dean Jones
11. Aaqib JAVED
12.Waqar Younis
13. Wasim Akram
14. Muhammad Yousaf
15. IQBAL Wasim
16. Abdul Qadir
17. Mushtaq Ahmad
18. Rashid Latif

Best Regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad