Why do big names in cricket coaching agree to coach Pak cricket team ? Everything to lose, nothing to gain.

[rangeelaraja]

Most if not all of these were accomplished coaches that had success with other teams - both international and domestic. 
 

What does Pak offer to them ? I bet the money is just barely acceptable for their reputation. Risk of failure if huge given that most Pak players are paindoo jhahiils without any education and can’t communicate decently in English. Risk to personal safety is huge because you are with a fanatical, barbaric and illiterate people. Case in point a Bob Woolmer. 

it’s actually very little to gain and huge risks - both reputational and personal. 

 

Some big names - 

 

Richard Pybus

Bob Woolmer

Geoff Lawson

Dav Whatmore

Mickey Arthur

Gary Kirsten

Jason Gillespie

Mike Hesson

 

[vvvslaxman]

Yea no clue. I am sure they do t make much money either. It is a massive headache. They are Picasso at the art of backstabbing

[tapandrun]

Money and to keep their name pop-up in coaching circles/market.

 

All the names mentioned above are career coaches, they are not some intnl player who are doing coaching. So if they donot have a big intnl team contracts they loses a lot of money and the only thing left for them is to have their own academy or coach/run a county team which is a big drop-off.

 

If some1 is in IPL franchise eco-system then they are sorted, if not what options these career coaches have its not like they can have hige demand of these coaches in broadcasting, intnl players like Moody, Shasrti, ponting,Dravid, gambhir, etc  can walk in and out in broadcasting. Its hard for career coaches.

 

Micky is coaching some county team, before pcb contract Gillespie was coaching some 2nd tier county team, Gary was in situation where GT ownership something at the top was changing and there no certainty so he took the job with pcb.

 

These career coaches have to keep themselves in intnl circuit to keep their value up in the market for  franchises when their intnl contract ends.

If are not associated with top level cricket their market value decreases and may be seen as dated.

 

They want to be seen, be a part of conversations.

 

Plus if thing goes sideways which mostly does they donot lose much of reputation, ppl know they are nt at fault.

Edited September 22, 2025 by tapandrun

[nevada]

It's actually the opposite. There's nothing to lose coaching a bottom of the barrel team in a disaster of a country. Expectations are very low and there is always a preemptive excuse for pathetic results - blame it on players' lack of English skills, cultural difference, allergy to discipline,  etc.

To top it off, Westerners seem to have a danger fetish - like crazy women in America writing love letters to convicted killers, scoring conjugal visits with them, marrying and having kids with them. The infamous serial killer Ted Bundy became a dad while on death row. 

 

[Cricketics]

Its easy. They get to work from home and not visit pakistan and coach them mostly in overseas series.

 

 

its like doing a stressfull job from home in WFH  environment which pushes you to take the challenge since you don’t  have to show up in person.

I remember Pakistan were complaining that Jason Gilspie is not coming to home games , and Pakistan also were playing mostly away form Pak. It has allowed coaches to freely travel to countries where Pak had been playing home and away games and hence more foreign coaches have taken interest recently.

 

 

Now that Pak has started playing more in their home conditions, likely the internartional coaches signing up to work for them will be a lot less.

 

I give 5-6 months to Hesson before he leaves to coach a domestic side in England or Nz.

 

 

Edited September 22, 2025 by Cricketics