Captain is important, not the coach, says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-Khan-c64237 – Cricket News Update
Former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Khan, believes that a coach has a very limited role to play in International cricket and he does not possess the ability to change a team’s fortune. In his opinion, it is the captain who matters the
most.
Imran was talking in the context of Waqar Younis’ resignation and his probable substitute. Younis announced his decision to quit as the national coach before the tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 and said that the tour will be his last as the mentor of the Green Shirts.
At the present moment, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is looking for a coach and is facing a dilemma, whether the national coach should be a local guy or a foreigner.
He gave the example of the Australian team under http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 did not become invincible because of their coach, in fact, the credit goes to
the Aussie players and the domestic cricket structure.
"Coaches basically have very limited ability to help a team and I don't understand this obsession with coaches, because basically Australia was not the best team because of their coach, they were the best team because they were a great team and they had
a good domestic cricket structure which kept on throwing up good players and they had a good quality captain," stated Imran.
Imran, who is considered amongst the best all-rounders the game has ever seen, said that a lot of undue influence is attributed to coaches, but if a coach could be so influential, then minnows like Zimbabwe and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 would have been among the top teams
just by hiring good coaches.
“If a coach was such a big thing then Zimbabwe or Bangladesh or one of the other weaker teams could just have a good coach and he could transform the team,” Imran added.
Imran himself was a very strong captain in his playing days and never allowed the team management to call the shots, which is very much reflected from his approach towards the game.
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