Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) ended their ‘connection camp’ with a discussion around unity among the players and with the board. The connection camp was organised in the aftermath of Pakistan’s recent losses to lowly ranked teams.
Pakistan lost to the USA in T20 World Cup 2024 before failing to making it to the knock outs and recently lost 0-2 to Bangladesh in the home Test series. The whole drama started after exit from 2023 ODI World Cup where Pakistan lost to Afghanistan.
Ever since the 50-over World Cup, PCB has seen multiple chairmen and a couple of changes in captaincy as well as coaches. Babar Azam was stripped off the captaincy from all formats before being handed the T20I captaincy just one series after Shaheen Afridi lost 5-0 vs Australia.
Pakistan also saw new coaches joining – Gary Kirsten for limited overs and Jason Gillespie for Tests. Kirsten also pointed out lack of unity in Pakistan team a while back but was happy with the depth of talent in the country during the domestic Champions Cup. Kirsten’s statement were juxtaposed to chairman Mohasin Naqvi who said Pakistan don’t have a huge talent pool to draw from.
“I’ve been here the last 12 days or so watching the Champions Cup and have been really encouraged at the depth of quality of players in this tournament,” Kirsten said as reported by the cricket news website ESPNCricinfo.
Gillespie, on the other hand, was happy with the discussion and stressed that their job as coaches is to implement ways to be more effective.
“Because we’re new to the job, our job is to listen and learn and look to implement ways where we can be more effective as players, as a team, and as coaches. What was really clear today was the pride the Pakistan players have in playing for Pakistan and how they want to inspire the country. That was really exciting to hear,” said Gillespie.
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