Interference was intimidating _ Kirsten about PCB tenure

[vvvslaxman]

 

[vvvslaxman]

We need a solid test coach. 

[gattaca]

21 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

We need a solid test coach. 

We need a director more than coach. Does Indian cricket coach even coach lol ?

[Lone Wolf]

PCB, Pak media and people are ruthless when it comes to coaches, chief selector and bowling coach.

 And when the team itself is below average, any half decent coach may get traumatized in such a environment.

 

Indian people, our media, ex players are mild in comparison and also the player power is way too much in India.

Social Media criticism is the only way there are some changes made in Indian set up. 

[New guy]

Why do these guys keep agreeing to coach Pakistan? By now everyone knows how the board is.

[Ultimate_Game]

4 hours ago, New guy said:

Why do these guys keep agreeing to coach Pakistan? By now everyone knows how the board is.

 

Everyone needs a paycheck and TBF there aren't too many options. Eng, Aus and India are Tier 1 followed by NZ and SA. The next best after these is Pak who are better than WI, B'desh and SL in terms of remuneration offered. So in all there're barely a handful of options. An in-demand coach will never go to Pak but it's a nice gig for an upcoming coach who's looking for their first intl gig or for has-beens who want to earn a paycheck before calling it a day. Kirsten falls into the latter category whose best days are past him.

[Tillu]

I thought Babar and Rizwan would retire from T20is after the world cup. What can any coach do when repeated failures like these get back into the team while doing Zilch. Sifarish culture is so strong in their setup.

[G_B_]

11 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

Everyone needs a paycheck and TBF there aren't too many options. Eng, Aus and India are Tier 1 followed by NZ and SA. The next best after these is Pak who are better than WI, B'desh and SL in terms of remuneration offered. So in all there're barely a handful of options. An in-demand coach will never go to Pak but it's a nice gig for an upcoming coach who's looking for their first intl gig or for has-beens who want to earn a paycheck before calling it a day. Kirsten falls into the latter category whose best days are past him.

 

Do pak coaches get more than ipl?

[singhvivek141]

7 hours ago, Tillu said:

I thought Babar and Rizwan would retire from T20is after the world cup. What can any coach do when repeated failures like these get back into the team while doing Zilch. Sifarish culture is so strong in their setup.

Babar is statistically the best batsman in the entire Pakistani cricket history after they started playing under honest umpires.
He is just 31.
Rizwan miya averages 46 odd in T20s, don't think anyone in Pak cricket history have seen such numbers.
They might not deserve a place in teams like SL and Zimbabwe...but for Pakistan they're gold/silver/diamond/uranium/plutonium/thorium/vibranium/admantium.

[Texy]

bro Kirsten u r lucky to b alive, unlike Woolmer

[Ultimate_Game]

2 hours ago, G_B_ said:

 

Do pak coaches get more than ipl?

 

Don't know but I'm guessing yes as IPL is only for 2 months but any national contract is for the whole year. And it could very well be based on franchises. Top ones like MI or CSK may pay top dollars but others like DC, PBKS, RR etc. may be cheap.

[nevada]

19 hours ago, G_B_ said:

 

Do pak coaches get more than ipl?

Good question! Wasn't Gary coaching some IPL team? 

[Chaos]

Kirsten would be hired in a flash, he shot himself by leaving after his first venture. Now bjp n gambhir r kings of the jungle

[tapandrun]

14 hours ago, nevada said:

Good question! Wasn't Gary coaching some IPL team? 

He was but at that time there were talks of change in ownership of gt and change in the coaching staff. So he might have thought that this is a good gig coming.

 

And francise/league coaches have shelf-life, so they want to keep rotating between intnl teams' coaching and leagues' coaching. Its similar to how current intnl players keeps getting good ipl gigs but only leagues players may or may not get an ipl gig<-- exception to this are elite players like who can play intnl cricket but dont want too and are still top of line players -->pooran, klasen, boult etc

 

 

Jason Gillespie also getting a new Coaching contract with one of the PSL teams

 

Edited March 23 by tapandrun

[tapandrun]

On 3/22/2026 at 12:42 AM, Tillu said:

I thought Babar and Rizwan would retire from T20is after the world cup. What can any coach do when repeated failures like these get back into the team while doing Zilch. Sifarish culture is so strong in their setup.

There is no need to retire for them, there have been 4-5 changes in the Coaching teams who had dropped them only to bring them back again. If not the same coach the next coach will call them back.

 

Based on the stats thy are hard to drop and if they retire leagues even psl will not take them as the marquee player.