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| Pakistan Cricket Board To Hire A Baseball Coach From USA To Improve Team Fielding | |
| 2007-04-02 | |
| Although the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has made up its mind on selecting a local coach to replace the deceased Bob Woolmer at the helm, there are moves to hire a baseball coach from the USA to improve the team’s terrible fielding. Making the announcement on Sunday, the PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf said:“The fielding coach will be not for three months or four months, we would hire him for at least one year.” On the issue of replacing Bob Woolmer, Ashraf said the PCB will not select a foreign coach and some one from within Pakistan will be approached to take over as coach. With five months to go before their next international assignment - the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa - Ashraf insists that there is plenty of time to make the decision, but says they will look for a local coach. “In all probability we will certainly now look for a Pakistani coach, but it will take some time to find a suitable man,” Ashraf said. As for a replacement skipper for the newly retired Inzamam ul-Haq, he said: “We don't want to make a hasty decision, we will name the captain and vice-captain within 30 days.” With public sentiment firmly against the players after their disastrous early exit from the World Cup, Ashraf appealed for calm. “It's not the time to panic and overreact,” he said. “I know people are angry and disgusted with the performance of the national team, but let me assure you that cricket is not going to die down in this country of 160 million.”
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| Posted by:John Frum |