London, Sept 23 (ANI): Former Pakistan cricket captain turned politician Imran Khan has said that a good cricket team should be focused on "good players and a good quality captain," rather than being obsessed with who the coach will be.
Waqar Younis is the latest in a long line of coaches who have found the role of coaching the Pakistan cricket team a stressful and difficult assignment. Khan said that coach is not the most important criteria for a good team.
"I think too much time and effort is spent and wasted on who the coach should be. Coaches basically have very limited ability to help a team and I don't understand this obsession with coaches, because basically Australia was not the best team because of their coach, they were the best team because they were a great team and they had a good domestic cricket structure which kept on throwing up good players and they had a good quality captain," Pakpassion.com quoted him, as saying.
"If a coach was such a big thing then Zimbabwe or Bangladesh or one of the other weaker teams could just have a good coach and he could transform the team. It cannot work like that. Yes, a captain can play a major role but not a coach. I always find that people do not understand that cricket is perhaps the only game that needs leadership and that needs a captain who needs to be a leader," Khan added.
The legendary all-rounder and captain of the 1992 World Cup winning team and a veteran of 273 matches for Pakistan, made his comments during a visit to the UK. (ANI)
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