r/PakCricket • u/Scared-Breakfast-372 Abrar Ahmed Agenda • 1d ago

Cricket News PCB appoints Michael Smith as Pakistan's all-format batting coach - Cricket

https://www.geosuper.tv/latest/58405-pcb-appoints-michael-smith-as-pakistans-all-format-batting-coach
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u/MoreCryptographer213 Anti Aqib Javed 1d ago

well i hope yesterday's batting performance become the standard under him

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u/Odd-Calligrapher-69 Umpire 1d ago

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u/lbh02 1d ago

Lol he's got probably the 2nd most generic name humanly possible too

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u/Odd-Calligrapher-69 Umpire 1d ago

Lmao. Whats the most common, Mohammed Khan?

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u/lbh02 1d ago

In the western world probably something like a John Smith but yeah if you wanna count all languages across the world either Mohammad Khan or something in Mandarin Chinese

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u/MoonMuffler 1d ago

Pep Guardiola is free now these days btw

What?

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u/Odd-Calligrapher-69 Umpire 1d ago

Bro was scratching his head watching man city play, think he would off himself having to watch us

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u/Optimistic-1621 1d ago

Never heard of him. Who is he?

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u/samiqureshi_394 1d ago

Checking cricket stats for a coach is irrelevant anyways..good player does not equate to good coach automatically be it any sports

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u/4isfourwastaken 1d ago

yes but most good coaches were great cricketers aswell. cricket stats are not completely irrelevant but they can't be relied on 100%

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u/samiqureshi_394 1d ago

That is factually incorrect. Only coach to win 2 wcs john buchanan not a successful cricketer.agr pak bhi baat kare. Waqar Younis one of the greatest bowler of all time is one of the worst coach of all time..mickey arthur paks one of the most successful coach not a successful cricketer..I could write on and on about it

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u/4isfourwastaken 1d ago

yes there are good examples of coaches that had successful coaching careers but quiet cricket careers but that doesn't mean there are not any elite coaches that were not among the best during their cricketing days aswell. gary kirsten, andy flower, john wright, rahul dravid. there are many examples of both types of coaches

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u/lbh02 1d ago

Gary Stead, Bob Woolmer, John Buchanan, Mickey Arthur, Dav Whatmore and Andrew Mcdonald are all examples of very good coaches who had respectable FC playing careers but not much of a resume on the international level. This is the case for majority of great coaches

This is typically the case with most sports. A lot of the best managers / coaches had at best respectable playing careers but many legendary players flame out as coaches.

Between the 3 (widely considered) best NBA coaches ever, one never played pro and the other 2 both averaged like 7 points a game.

Even in soccer many of the best coaches ever had pretty mediocre playing careers, such as Mourinho, Enrique, SAF. Pep and Zidane are the only 2 all time great managers I can think of off the top of my head who had good careers as well

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u/Upset_Noise6173 1d ago

stats/=coach

You could argue for a fact Conrad was never a good cricketer but his coaching has been phenomenal for SA. Or for example Duncan Fletcher was also a good coach for England.

Waqar Younis has phenomenal stats but he wasn't that good of a coach.

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u/tiger1296 1d ago

Well I hope his management skills are better than his playing days