http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Javed-Miandad-c66580 Appointed as Batting Consultant for Pakistan
Former Pakistan coach and batsman Javed Miandad has been appointed as the batting consultant for the Pakistan national team. Miandad will be performing his duties with the team by accompanying them in the upcoming tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754
where the team will be playing three Twenty20s, Two Test matches and six One Day Internationals.
The legendary batsman is currently appointed as Director General of Pakistan Cricket Board. However, Javed has made numerous statements in the past in which he clearly acknowledged the fact that he prefers helping the players on
field rather than sitting behind a desk. It seems that finally the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board has adhered to his requests and now has given him a job that he cherishes the most.
The main purpose of appointing Javed as a batting consultant is to improve the dropping standard of batting within the national team. For almost over a year, Pakistan has been losing matches due to lack of impressive batting.
This summer in England, the Pakistani batsmen struggled dearly because none of the batsmen were up to the mark.
Similarly, in the recently concluded series in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033, the Pakistanis were again seen struggling with the bat. Although, Pakistan won two matches out of five ODIs while batting last, but still those wins came
only because of individual performances, such as the breath taking batting by Abdul Razzaq. Overall, the batting line-up struggled which needed to be addressed.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has been facing considerable criticism from all quarters for refusing to appoint a batting coach for the national squad. The Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 has been accused many times for
not addressing the matter seriously. There are many who say that the flamboyant chairman does not believe in the effectiveness of a batting coach for the national team.
Ijaz Butt has always believed that a batting coach can only be effective in the national cricket academy, while teaching the younger players different techniques of batting. In Butt’s eyes, a player who has made it to the national
squad is no longer capable of changing his batting technique on the pretext of a batting coach, which makes the appointment of a batting coach or consultant useless.
Even now, Miandad has not been appointed as the batting “coach” instead the PCB has decided to use the word “consultant”. Nevertheless, it is quite clear that Miandad will be helping the players in the national team with their
batting.
The charismatic batsman has scored 8,832 runs in 124 Test matches and 7,381 runs in the ODIs. With an impressive record like this, he is surely the best man for the job. Javed has been the head coach of the Pakistan team three
times in the past, which has given him enough experience of coaching the national side.
Miandad has always had a passion to coach the young Pakistani players and has always made a positive effect on the national side in his previous stints as the head coach. Now let us see if he can help Pakistan team under his new
designation.
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