Ex-Chief Selector Haroon Rasheed raises important questions regarding Pakistan cricket team

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00:00We wanted to move towards first class, but before that, you said something about the butler's position or England's team playing like this.

00:11No one talked about it there.

00:13The thing is, whenever you get the answers after the match, it's not satisfactory.

00:20After every match, your captain comes and says, 10-15 runs were short.

00:24We are learning.

00:26We are enjoying our cricket.

00:28Now I am happy that they have removed the word enjoy.

00:30Otherwise, we would have to listen to enjoy after losing every match.

00:32And when all this event is over, they are listening to Michael Jackson's songs, driving their car and going for training.

00:38What kind of war is this now?

00:39I don't understand when all this handling will be fine.

00:43See, keep one thing in mind, Najeeb.

00:45Our setup is neither produced by the captain, nor do you see people in any leadership material.

00:53In your domestic setup, you don't put the right people in the right place.

01:00Your coaches have been working for the past 15-20 years.

01:04These 20-year-old coaches have not yet developed a leader.

01:08They have not yet pinpointed a captain material.

01:14Because all over the world, your counties, states in Australia, and provinces in South Africa,

01:21their captains are developing as a leader.

01:25They have been preparing them from the beginning.

01:27In my opinion, this is also a component.

01:31How will you prepare leadership material?

01:34And how will we take it to the domestic level?

01:37You will start from under 19.

01:39You will have to pinpoint.

01:41It is unfortunate.

01:42There is no doubt that there is a huge educational deficit in our country.

01:47Plus, the early level grooming is not at such a high level.

01:52Plus, our cricket infrastructure is not such that if you go and look for it,

01:57you will hardly find a handful of grounds where there is cricket.

02:01The club cricket is over.

02:02There is no cricket at the lower level.

02:04So, these issues will keep increasing.

02:06You select teams through open trials, which are not available anywhere in the world.

02:10Until performance-based selection is not done,

02:12and it will happen only when the boys start playing cricket at the grassroots level.

02:17Okay, let's quickly come to the first class system.

02:20You have done a lot of work on this.

02:22We are stuck in 16, 10, 12, 6 teams.

02:26Where do we see defects?

02:28What is the problem according to you?

02:30Look, the biggest problem is that if I take you,

02:34there was a result of this.

02:39I don't remember the year when this debacle happened.

02:44A committee was formed in which Aqib Naushad, Colonel Naushad Ali,

02:48and I think it was Shafqat Rana or Sultan Rana,

02:52they were given a task to tell what to do in the domestic.

02:55When they saw everything, they said that the situation in the domestic is that

02:59there are a lot of associations.

03:01So, they distributed it to Pakistan in 9 regions.

03:08And below that, they gave certain shares which were associations.

03:11They said that you will play cricket in these 9 regions,

03:15so that there will be more competition.

03:17But with time, those 9 regions changed to 16.

03:20So, this is where you do injustice.

03:23Look, Tasmania took 26 or 28 years.

03:26The Australian Cricket Board recognized it and gave it the status of first class.

03:31Whereas, in our country, DMG is playing first class cricket in the first year.

03:37Larkana, AJK, Larkana and DMG became regions later.

03:44So, according to me, the solution is that you have to make teams,

03:49but take them in zones.

03:52You have to monitor the regions in which quality cricketers are coming in real sense.

03:59So, their competition base, whether it is 5 or 6 teams,

04:03you have to make those 6 teams compete.

04:07Below that, you have 6 and 6 again.

04:09This is a very important distinction.

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