Miandad blames IPL for Australian cricket's decline

[Oracle]

@oracle
merging with IPL thread,Hot chicks thread(if DFI has any)??

Waiting for manc to do it WE. He's got good eyes

 

[hit&run]

Same ''Haklaa'' Miandad was abusing India for not letting Pakistani Players in. Now he is advising Australians, without being asked.

 

[rcscwc]

At least this fool cannot blame IPL for the sh** pool into which Pakistan cricket finds itself

 

[Ray]

No Pakistani in the last IPL.

Grapes are sour?

 

[sob]

Similar remarks from Peter Roebuck but on a more sensible line.

Go back to the basics

To talk to an Australia coach and to a 30-year-old former Shield player recently was to understand the challenges currently faced by those responsible for directing the game in this country. As in other arenas, a battle is on between the classical and the contemporary. Suffice to say the classical is in retreat. Wise nations and activities seek to strike a balance between the eternal and the present, seek to take the best from both.

Ignoring the traditions of local batsmanship, they are told to go forwards, anticipate and punish full deliveries. Is it any wonder that Australians keep hooking off the front foot or that the captain keeps losing his wicket to the shot?

Of course the IPL has been the cause of all these changes. Youngsters and their agents notice the money made by 21-year-olds in the auction and decide to follow in their footsteps. Accordingly they focus on aggressive skills, clouting yorkers, improvising flicks, developing various slower balls and delivering slower bumpers and so forth, never mind that it is really a load of hoo-ha, as is the IPL.

Kallis and Tendulkar batted superbly in last year's IPL. Proper batsmen master a method and then adapt to conditions. Moreover it is much easier to go down than up, to go from five days to 20 overs. The recent Ashes series was fought between a team with solid batting techniques and a bunch of fly-by nights masquerading as Australian batsmen. It was not the fault of the newcomers. What other world do they know?

I have a feeling that Miandad just read this article and picked up one line out of it.
Grow up Mr.Miandad, it seems that you have not learned anything beyond jumping like a monkey on the cricket field.

 

[warriorextreme]

perhaps in IPL we might see change of loyalties very soon just like what torres did to liverpool
i wish IPL governing council loosens some rules