Analysis on Pakistan’s New Head Coach Appointment – Why not Split Coaching?

Reaction on yesterday’s inevitable announcement.

Why is it necessary in the modern game to have the same person coaching the team in all three formats?

Split coaching would have been a better and a more sensible move.

Misbah ul Haq being Pakistan national cricket team head coach in TEST CRICKET ONLY and also coaching a PSL franchise would have been fine, but they should have given the coaching of the ODI and T20I national teams to Dean Jones, particularly given he has been part of a fifty over World Cup winning team in the country hosting the next World Cup and also has good local knowledge of the country hosting the next T20 World Cup in just over a year’s time.

No need at all for the same coach across all three formats in addition to coaching a franchise side. Coaching Pakistan in Test Cricket and coaching a PSL franchise would have been fine and much more understandable as they are completely different forms of the game and therefore barely conflicting roles. And with that, also only being the chief selector of the Test side or the form of the game he is coaching in if they wanted to stick with the unique dual role theory of combining the head coach with the chief selector.

That is my take. This would have been the best of both worlds with a local coach for the traditional form of cricket and an overseas voice for the shorter forms of the game.