Sports Room | Najeeb-ul-Husnain | ARY News | 28th August 2024
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00:00Assalam-o-Alaikum, hello and welcome to Sportsroom.
00:02I am your host, Najeeb Ul Hasanain.
00:04Dear viewers, Sunday proved to be a dark day for Pakistan's Test cricket.
00:09Pakistan used to lose to smaller teams in one-day cricket every day.
00:13When we lost to USA in T20 World Cup, we thought what could be worse than this.
00:20But we also wanted to see that a team like Bangladesh,
00:23which has never won against Pakistan in its Test history,
00:28comes to Pakistan and defeats Pakistan with 10 wickets in front of our home crowd.
00:36It was really heart-breaking.
00:40Obviously, you must have felt bad too.
00:43But this was going on.
00:45This was bound to happen.
00:46This was the outcome.
00:47I repeatedly say that this defeat was inevitable
00:50because we have not won a Test match in our home for almost three and a half years.
00:57Either we are drawing or we are facing a defeat against a team
01:03that no one thought we would lose to.
01:06We have not made a single mistake.
01:08We have made a lot of mistakes.
01:10To talk about this, we have with us a former Test cricketer in Lahore studio,
01:15our expert, Basit Ali.
01:17Assalam-o-Alaikum, Basit bhai.
01:18Wa-alaikum-salam, Najeeb bhai. How are you?
01:21I am fine, Basit bhai.
01:22Basit bhai, the way the Pakistan team is playing cricket,
01:25it is as it can be.
01:27First of all, tell us, what kind of surgery was this?
01:31In the first match itself, Bangladesh opened all our doors.
01:35I won't say surgery.
01:37Because the surgery was planned by the chairman, PCB, Mohsin Naqvi.
01:42He said it would be a surgery.
01:44I don't think it will be a sudden surgery.
01:48Surgery is done by those who have a little experience.
01:54Mohsin Naqvi has handled the job of the chairman, PCB, for the first time.
01:59He is a good administrator, but it will take some time.
02:03The reason is that it will take time.
02:05The team that is with him, Najeeb,
02:08the team at home should be better.
02:11The team that makes good decisions, gives good advice.
02:14Unfortunately, the team that has been destroying cricket for 5 years,
02:19is now the director of the NCA.
02:22They are always the same.
02:23Sometimes the director is domestic.
02:25They have two jobs.
02:26If you understand that when such a strong person comes,
02:29then there is an expectation that he will make strong decisions.
02:32So here I am a little sorry about this.
02:36And along with that, his statement has also come that
02:38I will not go at anyone's request.
02:40I will fix Pakistan cricket.
02:42So to fix it, we are falling more and more.
02:48What can be worse than this?
02:52Look, the sentence of desire that he used,
02:55I know whose desires are those.
02:57I will not go on that.
02:59And what he said, I will do it right.
03:02So this is the prayer of me and our entire Pakistan,
03:05that may Allah make you do the work that we also want.
03:09This is my answer to his press conference.
03:13I will come to Bangladesh a little.
03:15Bangladesh has not defeated us.
03:19We are losing ourselves.
03:21Of course.
03:22Where does it start?
03:24That two days before you announce the team,
03:26four fastballers.
03:28Yes.
03:29Right.
03:30And you know what the weather is like there.
03:33It is a humid weather.
03:35The pitch that is visible there two days ago,
03:39will it be the same pitch in the next two days?
03:42This is the mistake of the management.
03:44This is the mistake of the captain who made the team.
03:47They don't know how to pitch.
03:52They don't know that you are announcing the team two days ago.
03:56So what are you trying to show?
03:58Are you the number one team in the world?
04:02After that decision,
04:04we started talking that the ball will spin here.
04:08My brothers, the ball will spin here.
04:10You didn't realize what the captain said yesterday.
04:13He was waiting for the fifth day to rain,
04:17and the match would not be decided.
04:19Are you looking at the approach?
04:21We defended for four days that our decision was right.
04:25On the fifth day, when the test match was coming,
04:27the captain had to say that it was a bad decision.
04:30Second mistake.
04:31After that, when Bangladesh batted,
04:35they batted session to session.
04:38The demand for test cricket,
04:40I usually say test.
04:42Everything is a test.
04:44Whether it's your physical fitness,
04:46whether it's your mindset,
04:48whether it's your improvisation,
04:50whether it's your bowling,
04:52whether it's your fielding.
04:53We failed in everything.
04:55We missed three catches.
04:57But the batting in Mushafiq-Ud-Rahim,
05:00it reminded us.
05:01We are giving them credit.
05:03It is necessary.
05:04But my question is,
05:06your bowling was very mediocre.
05:09You didn't threaten them anywhere.
05:12You didn't challenge them.
05:13On this bowling,
05:14you thought you would win with four fast bowlers.
05:17Either you have a bowler with a speed of 150 plus,
05:20so you think we will scare them,
05:22put them under pressure.
05:23They play spin well.
05:25So we will try to catch them with our fast bowlers.
05:28How could you think like this on this bowling?
05:32I will answer your question.
05:35When you won the test series from Bangladesh,
05:38they made a spin pitch.
05:40And your spinner won the match,
05:43in which Sajid Khan was also there.
05:45Yes, absolutely.
05:46You are winning on a spin pitch,
05:48and you think we will make a grass pitch,
05:51which first of all,
05:52we don't know how to make.
05:53We don't know how to make,
05:54right?
05:55We don't know how to make.
05:56The main thing is,
05:57we don't know how to make.
05:58This is not new.
05:59This has been going on for three years.
06:01Absolutely.
06:02I will tell you,
06:03Najeeb has a head office at Gaddafi Stadium.
06:06Three matches have been decided there in four years.
06:10So we don't know how to make a head office pitch.
06:13So you are bringing in a new person,
06:15a curator from Australia,
06:17at the request of Jason Gillespie.
06:19People are coming from Australia,
06:21to the National High Performance Centre.
06:23Curators are also coming.
06:24What is the benefit?
06:25Whose loss is it?
06:27Pakistan's cricket loss.
06:29Absolutely.
06:30It's all simple.
06:31If I take two or three names from here…
06:33They have a dab in fast bowling,
06:35and even then,
06:36Nathan Lyon plays for them.
06:38We couldn't get Abrar to play.
06:40And after getting him to play,
06:41we sent him out and sent Shine.
06:43We don't need him.
06:44Najeeb, I will come to this.
06:47Look,
06:48there are one or two curators in Pakistan,
06:50who know how to make a pitch.
06:52When Jason Gillespie used to play from Australia,
06:56two spinners used to play,
06:58Shane Vaughan Maroon and Matt Gill.
07:01After that, Nathan Lyon came,
07:03as you just said.
07:04In Australia,
07:05where there is a bouncy track,
07:07but they know that
07:08the ball will spin here for 5-6 days.
07:10Exactly.
07:11You are bringing in the Australian mentality,
07:14and you don't know about Pakistan's pitches.
07:16I don't know.
07:17I feel sorry for the players of Pakistan,
07:20the senior players,
07:21like Sarfaaz, Babur, Ugyakshan.
07:24They should have told us
07:25that the ball spins here.
07:28But that means
07:29they are one-man show.
07:31Tell me one thing,
07:32Hazar Mehmood is with us,
07:33Hazar Mehmood lives in England,
07:36but he understands things.
07:37After that,
07:38in order to defend,
07:40he says such a sentence that
07:42there was no sporting pitch,
07:43what we wanted,
07:44that didn't happen.
07:45Support the fast bowlers,
07:47and support the spinners.
07:49How can we support you?
07:50You didn't even have a spinner's plan.
07:51He supported me all the four days,
07:54Jason Gillespie,
07:55who was sent to the media talk.
07:58It's good that you mentioned Hazar Mehmood.
08:00I would like to make it clear.
08:02In the last program,
08:03I said that he wore the wrong cap.
08:06After that, he sent a message
08:07that this is a famous cap.
08:11To hide the sponsor,
08:12he wore the wrong cap.
08:13I didn't want that.
08:15Yes, he was wearing the wrong cap.
08:17I apologized to Hazar Mehmood.
08:20Today, I would like to apologize to you.
08:23The color of the cap and the shirt was the same.
08:27It was my fault.
08:28I apologized to Ajit.
08:29Today, I would like to apologize to you.
08:31I would like to apologize to all the viewers.
08:34Hazar Mehmood should speak the truth.
08:37Hazar Mehmood is a member of the team
08:41in which Gary Christian played his first match.
08:44When I was serving as a coach,
08:47I was coming from America.
08:50When Jason Gillespie played his first test match
08:53as a head coach in Pakistan,
08:56I lost that match.
08:57I was coming from America.
08:59He was coming from Bangladesh.
09:00But, the statement that is made
09:03that he was the top coach in the world,
09:05is wrong.
09:06This statement is absolutely wrong.
09:08If he was the top coach,
09:10wouldn't he have played for Springer?
09:12Exactly.
09:13Wouldn't Gary Christian have faced Fakhar Zaman
09:18against America?
09:21I am telling you these small mistakes.
09:24Don't call him the number one coach in the world.
09:27A coach is one who delivers.
09:29It has been 8 days since he came.
09:32Give him time.
09:34Give him time when you have kept him here.
09:36We will continue the discussion.
09:37Basit Ali is with us.
09:38Let's take a commercial break.
09:39Don't go anywhere.
09:40We will be right back.
09:41Welcome back once again to Sports Room.
09:43Before taking a break,
09:44we were talking to Basit Ali
09:46about the mistakes that have been made.
09:48In the beginning of the program,
09:49I told you that Pakistan has longed
09:51to win in its home ground.
09:543.5 years have passed.
09:57Specifically,
09:58if I tell you,
09:59we have not been able to win a test match
10:02in our home since February 2021.
10:05In the meantime,
10:06who have we lost to,
10:08how have we lost,
10:09what are the details,
10:10we will show you in this report.
10:11We have seen the stats.
10:13We are not able to win at home.
10:15We are the worst team in the world at home.
10:19I said something yesterday.
10:21I am saying it again today.
10:22We are coming in the second tier teams in Test Cricket.
10:25These people dream
10:27that we will take Pakistan to the finals of the World Test Championship.
10:31Shahan Masood said that we will make Pakistan a fort
10:34where it will be very difficult for the world teams to defeat us.
10:37Will we make a fort like this?
10:41Yes, we will make a fort.
10:42He did not lie.
10:44But in politics.
10:46We will make a fort in internal politics.
10:49Look, you have shown test matches since 2021.
10:53The biggest thing is that you do not know how to pitch.
10:55I do not know.
10:56You have hijacked from England.
10:59Those who bring the system of England, New Zealand and Australia.
11:04They do not learn from their neighbouring countries.
11:07And as far as the names of the players are concerned.
11:12What will be the first name in bowling?
11:14Shaheen Shah Afridi.
11:15Exactly.
11:16What will be the first name in batting?
11:18Babur Azam.
11:19What is the performance from the last 12-15 matches?
11:22If you are made the ICC No. 1 batter.
11:26I do not know on which base you are made.
11:28I will tell you.
11:30You have to play everywhere.
11:33You will be made when you run against small teams.
11:36I do not remember the last performance.
11:38When you have played against a big team.
11:40In a very comprehensive victory.
11:43Or against a small team.
11:45In a stuck match.
11:47Then you will be considered a big player.
11:49If you do not do it here, when will you do it?
11:51In your home ground, in your condition.
11:53You are not able to stand for two sessions.
11:58If you know the meaning of the session, then I am standing.
12:01How is the ball done in the session?
12:03How is the partnership done in bowling?
12:05These people do not know this.
12:08By looking at it, we come to know.
12:10That there is no partnership in bowling.
12:12If there is a partnership in batting, then everyone knows.
12:14That this is the opening partnership.
12:16Even after that, a partnership is made.
12:18The bowler is tackled.
12:20You play Najeeb.
12:22I play Basit.
12:24These are all internal things that have to be said today.
12:26Look Najeeb.
12:28In reality, why is there no surgery?
12:32Because our players have grown up from cricket.
12:35This is a true statement.
12:38There was no Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar.
12:41There was no Asian Bradman, Zaheer Abbas.
12:44There was no Sunil Gavaskar.
12:46There was no Junoos Khan.
12:48Cricket is top.
12:50After that, you are learning every day.
12:52You did not let the players come.
12:54The problem is that you are showing a performance of 3-3.5 years.
12:57You played 2 3-3.5 years.
12:59Absolutely.
13:01I have said this before.
13:03With Osama Amir, Mahesh Shadab.
13:06He is a very good all-rounder.
13:08But if you are not doing it, then give the other a chance.
13:10If you are not bowling with Shaheen Shah Hafeez or Naseem Shah.
13:13Then try the other one.
13:15In Australia, you feed Mir Hamza.
13:17And here, you feed the other bowler.
13:23It was a big injustice to feed Mir Hamza.
13:27In this situation, in this condition,
13:29he would have proved to be a miracle.
13:33Those who do not know whether the ball will swing or seam on this pitch.
13:39How will they decide?
13:41Jason Gillespie was not a swing bowler.
13:43He was a seam bowler.
13:45He used to hit on the dick.
13:47That's why he put Muhammad Ali.
13:49This is the truth.
13:51Whether someone believes it or not.
13:53Whether someone says it or not.
13:55Basit Ali will say it.
13:57Absolutely right.
13:59It was a very painful thing that happened in this test match.
14:01Tell me.
14:03We had not come out of this yet.
14:05Waqar Yunus's past experience with PCB was not so good.
14:09He had just come to this position.
14:11And now the updates are coming that
14:13instead of Waqar Yunus,
14:15there is a possibility of a new advisor.
14:17And the sources say that
14:19Waqar Yunus was not coming to the office for a long time.
14:21And he was not getting along with some of his officers.
14:25He was not cooperating with them.
14:27So because of this, we are looking for a new advisor.
14:30What is going on?
14:31First, they were asking questions on his arrival.
14:33Now when did he come and when is he leaving?
14:35This is also not understandable.
14:39Whatever news is giving you is giving wrong news.
14:44The officers who have been making groups for the past 5-6 years.
14:50Sometimes they bring Misbah, sometimes Yunus and remove them.
14:54Because they do not listen.
14:56Similarly, Waqar's name will not be heard by these people.
15:00These people are advisors.
15:02They put coaches of their own accord.
15:04Because he is the head of the NCA.
15:06And they tell those coaches that
15:08these players must be added to the team.
15:10I am Rahul.
15:12If Waqar Yunus does not listen and does not want to stay.
15:16Then why is he ready to become a mentor?
15:18PCP has announced 5 mentors of the Champions Cup teams.
15:23Waqar Yunus, Misbah Ul Haq, Saklain Mushtaq, Sarfaraz Ahmed and Shoaib Malik are included.
15:28The first assignment of the mentors will be Champions One Day Cup.
15:32Champions One Day Cup will be played from 12th to 29th September in Faisalabad.
15:40Basit, what would you like to say on this?
15:45Good luck to all of them.
15:47What do you mean? Tell us openly.
15:52I am afraid that the time of your program will get over.
15:58No, you tell us.
15:59Tell me that the tournament was supposed to start on 2nd or 3rd.
16:07But it got delayed.
16:09First, Director Domestic made this announcement.
16:14He took these things and gave them to the director of NCA to reschedule.
16:19This is the work of the director of NCA.
16:23This is the work of Director Domestic.
16:27The director of NCA, from where he got his taunts.
16:32Alhamdulillah, Basit Ali knows.
16:34At this time, there is cancer in Pakistan Cricket Board.
16:38What I am saying is cancer.
16:40If the chairman of PCB thinks that his people are making good decisions, then great.
16:46Otherwise, if you don't get rid of this cancer, then cricket will go down further in 2-3 years.
16:52You are coming from Bangladesh.
16:54Allah forbid, you start losing from Nepal.
16:57This is the disease that has destroyed cricket.
17:00If the chairman does not agree, then I am ready to talk to him and prove how he destroyed cricket.
17:12And as far as the mentor is concerned, I said good luck to everyone.
17:16Because my colleagues are my buddies.
17:18Now listen carefully to what I am telling you.
17:23Is Peshawar not in Pakistan?
17:27Yes.
17:29Is Peshawar in Pakistan?
17:31Yes, absolutely.
17:32Then why didn't Peshawar become a mentor?
17:35Yes.
17:37Didn't Yunus Khan play with Peshawar?
17:41Who made 10,000 runs.
17:45Absolutely right.
17:46Did any player make 10,000 runs from Pakistan?
17:50Yes.
17:51No one made it.
17:53Why?
17:54Because Peshawar is a loving country.
17:56Peshawar does not put grass on people like Yunus Khan.
18:00Peshawar puts a label on people like Yunus Khan.
18:02Peshawar is mentally very angry.
18:05Yes, Peshawar will not listen to us.
18:06Peshawar will not cooperate with us.
18:08Peshawar did not make it because of this.
18:10Now listen to the name.
18:12Peshawar needs 5 names like Yasmin, Rashid, Latif.
18:15I will come to Yasmin later.
18:19Rashid, Latif.
18:21Amir Surel.
18:24Shoaib Akhtar.
18:26Did he not play cricket from this country?
18:29He has played cricket.
18:31He has won single handed matches.
18:33But he did not make it because he is not Yasir.
18:36He will not listen to him like a coach.
18:39If there is something wrong, he will leave it.
18:42Because the pride for him is the country.
18:44Today I want to say something from your program.
18:48General Asim Munir is the Army Chief.
18:51Sir, I have a request to you.
18:53You must talk to the chairman of the PCP.
18:56Why are these people not in the system of Pakistan?
18:59They have served this country.
19:01They have fought for this country on the ground.
19:04They are soldiers of Pakistan.
19:06You must talk to the chairman of the PCP.
19:09They are being misguided.
19:11Give me 10 minutes.
19:13I will give you milk and water.
19:16Who all are wrong in this system?
19:18Thank you Mr. Basit Ali for being with us.
19:21It is evident that he is disappointed with the team's performance.
19:26And the condition of Pakistan cricket.
19:29I hope you liked the program.
19:31Give permission to your host, Najeeb-ul-Hasanain.
19:33Take care of yourself. Allah Hafiz.