Foreigners, local coaches don't want to work with PCB due to its shortsightedness: Misbah

Former Pakistan captain Misbah ul Haq criticizes the PCB's uncertainty and shortsightedness, causing coaches to avoid working with them.

Former Pakistan captain Misbah ul Haq feels that due to uncertainty in the PCB and its shortsightedness, foreigners and even local coaches don't want to work with the country's cricket board.

Misbah, who has worked as head coach and also chief selector of the Pakistan team between 2019 and 2021, lamented that in Pakistan cricket the players and coaches were sacked based on one or two series or because of a change in the top management of the board.

"If you look at the policies of the board leave alone foreign coaches I don’t think even our local coaches want to work with the PCB," he told the media in Karachi.

Misbah is coaching the Hyderabad franchise which has qualified for the ongoing Sindh Premier League in the city.

"Pakistan cricket should not be run in such a haphazard manner and we need to have long term plans for the team management, selectors and grooming of players. Unfortunately in Pakistan a change in the board leadership changes everything," he said.

Misbah asked how players could feel secure and establish themselves in the national team if they were not sure about what was happening in the board.

"I believe you can’t make a good team or groom quality players if proper time is not given for this process. We need to look at the systems of some other countries who are successful.”