Comments on: Geoff Lawson is the new Pakistan Coach

By: Safdar Akbari

Safdar Akbari — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:41:10 +0000

I like the views of Moin Khan who said that foreign coach is needed at a more junior level than our national team. I think the reason why Woolmer didn’t fully succeed was because he had little influence over state of things in presence or of half a dozen “super stars”, unprofessional players and an arrogant captain. We need to fix things from bottom-up. If Inzamam-like mentality exists in the team then there is no way this team can become the likes of Australia (I mean I don’t know why he never even tried batting at no.3 when the whole world thought it was needed! – you need to be dynamic in your approach – come’on). Like the way we say after every failure in Pakistan that”is mein Allah ke marzee thee.” If we say this to ourselves after every loss then we won’t get anywhere even with Bob Woolmers or Geoff Lawsons of any game. Look at where we were in Squash, Cricket and Hockey 10 years ago and where we are now. Our player’s basic attitude towards the game need to change – it will fix most of the problems, no matter what game it is.

By: Naveed

Naveed — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:06:15 +0000

I just kept thinking

1. Don’t we have any one from our own country of 160 million.
2. How can we afford to pay him 8,000,000 Pak Rupees per year. (correct me if I am wrong with this figure, but I heard it from two different news channels)

By: Owais Mughal

Owais Mughal — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:55:21 +0000

I do have some memories of Geoff Lawson as a bowler. Australia toured Pakistan in 1982. I was 11 years old and my passion for cricket was at its height. I used to watch each-and-every ball of even a three-day match on TV. Geoff Lawson played against Pakistan in an ODI at Hyderabad. This was the same match in which Jalaluddin (remeber him?) did a hat-trick for Pakistan. Lawson bowled pretty well in that match and gave 29 runs in his 8 overs and took the wicket of Mohsin Khan.

Later in 1983, Pakistan toured Australia for Pak-WI-Aus, Benson and Hedges series and Lawson was at his best then and never gave more than 30 runs in his 10 overs against Pakistan. I believe he played 4 matches against Pakistan in that series.

This is on a tangent, but I guess Lawson though not the best, was still a very good bowler in his prime.

Somebody above said the right thing that energy and attitude matters in an interview and that may be the big plusfor him versus Dave Whatmore. good luck to him