Politics and Cricket
Pakistani Cricket team has always made news, and most often for the wrong reasons. Pakistan is a country that has been fighting with layers and layers of internal corruption and this has also made its impact on the country’s national cricket team. There have been incidents where players have fought amongst each other to the extent of physical exchanges. The height of violence was reached when in 2007 the coach for Pakistan’s cricket team Bob Woolmer was strangled to death, however the murderer was not found due to lack of evidence.
What surprises me however is that right after that incident that next coach that took up the role was Geoff Lawson, an Australian, in other words another foreigner. If I would be asked to coach the Pakistani cricket especially right after the death of Bob Woolmer I would have no hesitation to reject the offer, simply because I don’t want to die. Thankfully Geoff Lawson was not killed but was sacked after two years, with comments that he is no longer useful for us.
Today when Waqar Younis, one of the best and fastest bowlers the world has ever seen, is the outgoing coach for Pakistan, Geoff Lawson has made a comment that Pakistan should hire a coach from outside the country who would not have to go through the political pressure that would otherwise affect a Pakistani Coach, once again highlighting the political influence that Cricket Pakistan endures. I guess a new coach would have to touch certain basic elements to discipline the team, in other words the couch would have some primary teaching jobs that he would have to undertake and only then will he be able to build the team. This would need time and patience, and even if the couch would have patience, I am not sure the board would give the coach the time needed.
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