The prevailing security in Pakistan, which forced the cricket team to play all its international matches away from home, has come as a blessing in disguise for the team. The team does not enjoy any home advantage like all other teams do by playing on home ground and in front of their home crowd, yet it is winning many matches.
One can feel sorry for the cricket-crazy nation for being deprived of the opportunity of seeing its own boys playing on home ground. Recent showings of the Pakistani team against so many other formidable opponents are enough proof for its abundant talent. All what the team needed from the very beginning were discipline and just fine-tuning, which it got from Dav Whatmore, who replaced Mohsin Khan as the team’s head coach in March 2012.
Since then Pakistan won the Asia Cup in Bangladesh and also figured very well in most of its recent engagements, including the one in India, now.
Whatmore, who helped his country of birth, Sri Lanka, win the World Cup in 1996 in Lahore by beating his adopted country, Australia, is a strict disciplinarian.
I believe the Pakistanis cricket team chose an ideal man at the opportune moment to put its team on the right track. Pakistan is a country with no short of young talents and we, cricket lovers, yearn to watch these talents in action, no matter from whom and from where they come. Finally a message to all radicals in Pakistan: “Don’t deprive your cricket-crazy nation of watching its boys in action on own soil.” — S.H. Moulana, Riyadh
Pakistan cricket team
