Sethi Put Blame on Public & Media Pak Performance in WC

[Musafir117]

A day after Pakistan crumbled to their second straight defeat in the World Cup, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Sethi came to the team’s defense, placing the blame on media and public pressure.
“No international team plays under the kind of tension our team plays in owing to media and public pressure,” Sethi said on Sunday.
Admitting the team’s performance has been poor till now, with the 1992 champions at the bottom of Pool B after losing both matches against West Indies and India, the PCB chairman said, “We admit the team’s performance has been disappointing, but just ponder over your reactions and how they affect the team’s motivation.”
Read: West Indies bounce back with 150-run rout of Pakistan
“Under this pressure, no team can play,” the PCB chairman said in an apparent reference to mock funerals and protests held across the country to demonstrate frustration with the national side.
Read: #PakvWI: Flopped, dropped and mocked
Residents of Multan organised a symbolic funeral procession on Saturday, replete with a coffin with several cricket bats placed over it, directing their anger at the national team after a poor start to the tournament that has also seen it defeated by arch-rivals India.
Read: Disappointed fans stage mock funeral for cricket team after defeat
Elsewhere in the country, disappointed fans staged their own protests, some burning effigies of captain Misbahul Haq and Shahid Afridi.
However, shifting blame for the team’s back-to-back defeat on the PCB chairman himself, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan alleged Sethi was made the chairman of the cricket board as a ‘gift,’ according to Express News.
Meanwhile, former paceman Shoaib Akhtar said, “I have not seen a more coward and selfish captain than Misbah.”
Read: I’ve never seen a coward captain like Misbah, says Shoaib Akhtar
“He is not willing to bat up the order to protect the other players at a time when he needs to show inspiration.”
However, the captain himself said their faltering World Cup campaign needed improvement across the board.
“It’s a do or die situation for us and there are no ifs and buts,” Misbah said as he tried to look ahead to Pakistan’s next game against Zimbabwe, while sifting through the wreckage of Saturday’s crushing loss.
Read: Do or die time for Pakistan, says Misbah
“We just lost in all three departments,” Misbah admitted. “We couldn’t bowl well, a lot of dropped catches, and the batting totally flopped.”
On Saturday, Chasing the West Indies’s first innings total of 310 runs, Pakistan gave up its first four wickets for just one run — the worst start in one-day international history — before eventually losing by 150 runs.
Public, media pressure to blame for team’s poor performance: Sethi – The Express Tribune

I'm? Responsible for my team performance? Damn he has no other better excuse.

 

[Agent Smith]

Najam Sethi, H Nisar and Tarek Fateh are my favorite Pakistani journalists although Tarek Fateh is now Canadian citizen.

 

[senses]

Players don't perform---> That's the main reason, why we keep blaming each other, we are having batting issues since god knows when, some 10-20 years maybe ?

 

[singh sahab]

They are international players. They are supposed to handle pressure, domestic and foreign both. It is not the first time the Pakistani team is doing bad, neither it's the first time public is outraged, But it definitely would be the first time when public and media are blamed for national cricket team's blunder.

Hats off to this guy. Stupidity at it's best.

 

[PurpleButcher]

Players don't perform---> That's the main reason, why we keep blaming each other, we are having batting issues since god knows when, some 10-20 years maybe ?

The reason is performing players are sidelined

 

[The_Sidewinder]

lolwa

 

[singh sahab]

Players don't perform---> That's the main reason, why we keep blaming each other, we are having batting issues since god knows when, some 10-20 years maybe ?

I think they are also not getting much exposure to club cricket and league cricket as much as they should. Usually when players do not perform, they go to English and Aussie clubs and play there for some time. These club and league games makes a player perform under sheer stress. And due the frequency of these stresses there develops a quality that is called stress resilient. I am not saying it is all about pressure handling, they also learn some basics and new things while interacting with foreign local players, But in the series like WC, i think it's all about pressure handling.

Well do not think wrong of my intentions when i say this, Look at Indian cricket team and other teams, which are playing in IPL, These are scoring tons of runs in 20-20 cricket and they are also getting used to pressure handling and taking risks in big matches. These club and league matches give much needed experience to players when they interact with several foreign players. They learn something from Aussies, something from Carribeans and some other thing from English. They bits and pieces and use it in the big matches after a lot of practise.

Pakistan cricket team is no gully cricket team. If players are selected, then there must be some talent in them, magnitude of which is debatable, but they have talent nonetheless. And when these players do not perform like a national team, it shows their lack of pressure handling. There are some other factors as well, like lack of transparency in PCB, having 2 or more coaches at the same time ( coach, bowling coach, fielding coach ) and there is also lack of proper management and discipline as well. But still the most important thing according to me is lesser exposure to club and league cricket.

 

[Emmie]

What an absurd argument! Every team plays under such conditions, people back home do watch their team playing and media of course has a critical role, team Pakistan is no exception. Pakistanis, IMO, are comparatively lenient - our neighbors otherwise follow bad performers to their houses.

 

[singh sahab]

What an absurd argument! Every team plays under such conditions, people back home do watch their team playing and media of course has a critical role, team Pakistan is no exception. Pakistanis, IMO, are comparatively lenient - our neighbors otherwise follow bad performers to their houses.

And you had to drag your neighbors in this utterly domestic discussion as well?

 

[syedali73]

And you had to drag your neighbors in this utterly domestic discussion as well?

In a rather positive gesture.

 

[kaku1]

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A day after Pakistan crumbled to their second straight defeat in the World Cup, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Sethi came to the team’s defense, placing the blame on media and public pressure.
“No international team plays under the kind of tension our team plays in owing to media and public pressure,” Sethi said on Sunday.
Admitting the team’s performance has been poor till now, with the 1992 champions at the bottom of Pool B after losing both matches against West Indies and India, the PCB chairman said, “We admit the team’s performance has been disappointing, but just ponder over your reactions and how they affect the team’s motivation.”
Read: West Indies bounce back with 150-run rout of Pakistan
“Under this pressure, no team can play,” the PCB chairman said in an apparent reference to mock funerals and protests held across the country to demonstrate frustration with the national side.
Read: #PakvWI: Flopped, dropped and mocked
Residents of Multan organised a symbolic funeral procession on Saturday, replete with a coffin with several cricket bats placed over it, directing their anger at the national team after a poor start to the tournament that has also seen it defeated by arch-rivals India.
Read: Disappointed fans stage mock funeral for cricket team after defeat
Elsewhere in the country, disappointed fans staged their own protests, some burning effigies of captain Misbahul Haq and Shahid Afridi.
However, shifting blame for the team’s back-to-back defeat on the PCB chairman himself, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan alleged Sethi was made the chairman of the cricket board as a ‘gift,’ according to Express News.
Meanwhile, former paceman Shoaib Akhtar said, “I have not seen a more coward and selfish captain than Misbah.”
Read: I’ve never seen a coward captain like Misbah, says Shoaib Akhtar
“He is not willing to bat up the order to protect the other players at a time when he needs to show inspiration.”
However, the captain himself said their faltering World Cup campaign needed improvement across the board.
“It’s a do or die situation for us and there are no ifs and buts,” Misbah said as he tried to look ahead to Pakistan’s next game against Zimbabwe, while sifting through the wreckage of Saturday’s crushing loss.
Read: Do or die time for Pakistan, says Misbah
“We just lost in all three departments,” Misbah admitted. “We couldn’t bowl well, a lot of dropped catches, and the batting totally flopped.”
On Saturday, Chasing the West Indies’s first innings total of 310 runs, Pakistan gave up its first four wickets for just one run — the worst start in one-day international history — before eventually losing by 150 runs.
Public, media pressure to blame for team’s poor performance: Sethi – The Express Tribune

I'm? Responsible for my team performance? Damn he has no other better excuse.

PCB chairman is Mr.Sethi? Thats a news for me.

 

[singh sahab]

In a rather positive gesture.

It was positive for you and your countrymen, not for your neighbors.

 

[Musafir117]

PCB chairman is Mr.Sethi? Thats a news for me.

Yehi tou Rona hai

 

[Hurter]

Najam Sethi, H Nisar and Tarek Fateh are my favorite Pakistani journalists although Tarek Fateh is now Canadian citizen.

Ya because they speak against Pakistan.. And Indians love them.. I am not surprised..

This man is such an as* hole.. Bastard

 

[Emmie]

And you had to drag your neighbors in this utterly domestic discussion as well?

Yeah, because Mr. Sathi is arguing that no international team plays under the kind of tension team Pakistan plays in owing to media and public pressure. Pressure becomes the pressure of pressure cooker when team knows that it'll be demeaned to core and will be pelted with stones if it underperforms. The point is if team India like other international teams can perform good under such pressure then what the heck is wrong with team Pakistan.