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Moin wants local man replace Pakistan coach Whatmore
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 01 - 03 - 2013

KARACHI — Former Pakistan captain Moin Khan Thursday demanded the sacking of national coach Dav Whatmore following the team's 3-0 whitewash by South Africa, saying a local man should replace him.
Pakistan flopped miserably against the world No. 1 Test team, losing the first Test by 211 runs, the second by four wickets and the last by an innings and 18 runs.
Whatmore masterminded Sri Lanka's triumph in the 1996 World Cup and led minnows Bangladesh to their first-ever Test series victory and their first appearance in the World Cup Super Eights in 2007.
But Khan said he was not up to the job.
“Whatmore is an overrated coach,” Khan said. “There is a concept in Pakistan that a foreigner will not get involved in players' politics but Whatmore is now fighting for survival.”
Former Australian batsman Whatmore took over in March last year and led Pakistan to the semifinals of the World Twenty20 tournament, but he has come under fire after two successive Test series defeats.
Khan, who managed only four wins in his 13 matches as Pakistan captain, said Sri Lanka's World Cup win in 1996 owed more to its players than Whatmore.
“Ask any player of that team and he will tell you that in 1996 Sri Lanka had world-class players and their success was due to their players and not because of the coach,” said Moin.
Khan also criticized Test and one-day captain Misbahul Haq.
“Both coach and captain are fighting for survival. They should have a plan and a vision with which they should leave the team on a firm footing but I can't see any plan.
Instead, they keep their interests before the team.”
Pakistan has never been short of cricketing talent but the national team has suffered over the years from bickering and infighting. Khan, who played 69 Tests, said a foreign coach could not communicate with the players properly.
“When a foreigner is our coach, our players have a communication problem and the coach is also unable to brief the players on their mistakes and it's a big problem,” said Khan, a member of the World Cup-winning team in 1992.
Khan said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had blundered in replacing Mohsin Khan with Whatmore last year.
“Pakistan players were happy in Mohsin's coaching,” said Khan of the former coach, under whom Pakistan routed the then-world No. 1 Test team England in January last year.
“If Whatmore doesn't resign himself, then the PCB should sack him,” he added.
Pakistan plays the first of two Twenty20 internationals against South Africa at Durban Friday. It also plays five One-Day Internationals on the tour.
Whatmore needs to learn Urdu, says Hanif
Former Pakistan captain Hanif Mohammad believes the team's Australian coach Dav Whatmore needs to learn Urdu if he is to succeed with the players.
“I don't want to lay entire blame on him but he needs to learn our common language Urdu if he wants to communicate properly with the players,” Hanif said.
“It is important that a coach is able to convey his sentiments, feelings, advice, commands properly to the players. They must be able to understand and feel what their coach is saying,” added the 78-year-old.
“I don't think this is happening in the team because how many of our players can communicate or speak English fluently?”
Hanif, who played 55 Tests, felt a coach would never be able to convey his feelings or advice to a player through an interpreter or in a language not common to both.
“People don't realize how important a part of the coach's job is communicating properly with his players, who are then responsible for adapting and executing what they are told,” he added. — Agencies


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