{"id":12785,"date":"2026-05-26T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/india-has-so-much-talent-ex-pak-coach-exposes-why-pakistan-are-falling-behind-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:42:07","slug":"india-has-so-much-talent-ex-pak-coach-exposes-why-pakistan-are-falling-behind-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/india-has-so-much-talent-ex-pak-coach-exposes-why-pakistan-are-falling-behind-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;India has so much talent&#8217;: Ex-Pak coach exposes why Pakistan are falling behind | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131331455,imgsize-43886,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/pak-cricket-2605-icc.jpg\" alt=\"'India has so much talent': Ex-Pak coach exposes why Pakistan are falling behind\" title=\"Image credit: ICC\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan Test batter and ex-head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/haroon-rasheed\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Haroon Rasheed<\/a> on Tuesday drew a sharp contrast between the cricketing structures of India and Pakistan, saying India are now enjoying the rewards of long-term planning, strong domestic cricket and a robust age-group system, while Pakistan continue to struggle because of inconsistency and instability.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Speaking on hamaraiweb.com, Haroon said Pakistan\u2019s recent performances reflected the deeper issues within the country\u2019s cricket structure.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>&#8220;The recent Test defeats to Bangladesh and even before that in white ball cricket our performances tell the whole story of our cricket,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Haroon, who served the Pakistan Cricket Board in multiple roles including chief selector, coach of senior and junior teams and head of the cricket academy, said India\u2019s system has created an enormous talent pool, particularly in T20 cricket.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>&#8220;Right now India has so much talent to pick from, particularly in T20 cricket. The reason is all their players are coming through a proper system from various age groups.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>The former Pakistan batter said the lack of consistency, continuity and planning had severely damaged Pakistan cricket over the years.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think changing the board chairman so frequently has helped at all. I worked under at least six different chairman at my time in the board and when a new chairman comes in, it means he brings in his own people, policies and mindset,&#8221; Haroon said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Haroon also stressed the urgent need to overhaul Pakistan\u2019s domestic structure, warning that other nations were moving ahead rapidly.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>&#8220;In Pakistan there is a dire need to change the domestic structure which has survived competition between association and departmental cricket and come up with a new concept or we will be left behind. Even Bangladesh has now shown how they have improved.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>He also questioned the PCB\u2019s repeated captaincy changes, saying constant reshuffling prevented the team from developing stability.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>&#8220;When you decide to appoint a captain in any format it would have been done with much thought process so how can you keep on changing captains, how will this allow the Pakistan team to be consistent and stable,&#8221; he questioned.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>Haroon added that Pakistan had historically performed better under captains who were given long runs in leadership roles and warned that the country risked falling further behind if young players were not groomed properly.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/>&#8220;There are a lot of things that need to be put right in Pakistan cricket. Or else we will fall further behind. Because we are not even grooming our young talent properly or giving them the right coaching and exposure to prepare them for long term international cricket.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/india-has-so-much-talent-ex-pak-coach-haroon-rasheed-exposes-why-pakistan-are-falling-behind\/articleshow\/131331243.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan Test batter and ex-head coach Haroon Rasheed on Tuesday drew a sharp contrast between the cricketing structures of India and Pakistan, saying India are now enjoying the rewards of long-term planning, strong domestic cricket and a robust age-group system, while Pakistan continue to struggle because of inconsistency and instability.Speaking on hamaraiweb.com, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}