“It Does not Matter”: Ex-Pakistan Star’s Large Message For BCCI On Champions Trophy 2025

Amidst uncertainty on whether or not India will journey to Pakistan to play 2025 Champions Trophy matches, former spinner Saqlain Mushtaq stated it doesn’t matter to him whether or not or not the guests’ will come to the nation for the eight-team event. Pakistan have been hosts’ of Males’s Asia Cup 2023, however with India refusing to journey, it meant Sri Lanka have been roped in because the venue to stage the event in a hybrid mannequin. India has not performed in Pakistan since 2008 Males’s Asia Cup attributable to safety issues.

“It is easy. If India needs to return, they will. If they do not wish to come, it would not matter. There is not any level in making a fuss about it. This may not make both social gathering good or dangerous. That is ICC’s occasion, and they’re going to look into this matter, as they need to,” Mushtaq was quoted as saying by Cricket Pakistan.

Mushtaq, a former head coach of the Pakistan group, additionally spoke about how the present group administration ought to look to nominate a brand new captain of the facet submit a disappointing group-stage exit in 2024 Males’s T20 World Cup, whereas lamenting the shortage of long-term imaginative and prescient in earlier appointments.

“Many individuals are saying that he (Babar Azam) ought to give up captaincy and play as a daily participant. However all these voices are coming from exterior, from people who find themselves watching and listening to issues from the skin. These are feedback from outsiders. We should not take heed to the voices of these exterior.”

“The folks inside, who’re observing the state of affairs from inside, ought to see what’s actually happening and resolve who’s able to main the group successfully. If you need to appoint a captain, do you take a look at the brief time period, long run, or mid time period? What are you contemplating when appointing a captain?”

“We do not appear to have a imaginative and prescient; we take a look at what is going on to occur tomorrow and appoint a captain, then change the group the subsequent day. As a result of the folks making these selections do not even know if they will be round tomorrow, there is not any plan for the long run,” he elaborated.

Mushtaq signed off by advising Pakistan to chorus from chopping and altering their captains consistently, including that this may not assist them in making a world-class facet. “If you wish to create a frontrunner, the place does the philosophy of working collectively go? How will you’re employed collectively?”

“If you haven’t any plan, you will make anybody the captain. The extra you retain chopping and altering, the extra time you will have to offer to experiments. And earlier than experimenting, you need to create a whole technique and take a look at the professionals and cons of that experiment.”

“Now think about you take away Babar and Shaheen and usher in another person. Who will consider them? Who will see that the captain, whoever it’s, needs to be made for the subsequent 2-3 years and the way they are going to produce outcomes for Pakistan? Sadly, there isn’t a system right here. A system has by no means been created, and there has by no means been any ambition to create one.”

“We do not have the ambition to say that we’ll groom 3-4 captains over the subsequent 5 years from Beneath-19 to associations based mostly on their performances. Their performances needs to be evaluated not simply by watching matches or outcomes, however by speaking to them, listening to them, understanding their imaginative and prescient, and their management qualities.”

“By following this course of, you will notice which chief emerges. I do not see any of these items right here. If we maintain appointing a 3rd, fourth, and fifth captain on this method, we’ll by no means create a top-class group, nor will we be acknowledged globally,” he concluded.