{"id":67870,"date":"2025-08-14T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67870\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:51:08","slug":"92-all-out-ex-pakistan-cricketer-slams-mike-hessons-appointment-as-head-coach-i-dont-know-what-qualities-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67870\/","title":{"rendered":"92 all out! Ex-Pakistan cricketer slams Mike Hesson&#8217;s appointment as head coach \u2014 &#8216;I don\u2019t know what qualities\u2026&#8217; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123307032.jpg\" alt=\"92 all out! Ex-Pakistan cricketer slams Mike Hesson's appointment as head coach \u2014 'I don\u2019t know what qualities\u2026'\" title=\"Mike Hesson and Babar Azam \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Mike Hesson and Babar Azam  Former fast bowler <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shoaib-akhtar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shoaib Akhtar<\/a> has questioned the appointment of Mike Hesson as the new head coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pakistan-cricket-team\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan cricket team<\/a> after they were bowled out for a paltry 92 in the third ODI against West Indies.\u201cMike Hesson is a good T20 coach, but I don\u2019t know what qualities he has for ODIs. In this format, if you don\u2019t play quality players, this is what will happen,\u201d Akhtar said on the Game On Hai show.<\/p>\n<p>EXCLUSIVE: India to boycott Pakistan in Asia Cup? Harbhajan Singh says, &#8216;Khoon aur paani ek saath nahi beh sakte&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless you field established all-rounders, batters, bowlers, and spinners, you won\u2019t last the full 50 overs. You can\u2019t just scrape by in this format,\u201d he added.\u201cThis is the result of bad policies, not the players\u2019 fault. Your players will always be exposed on seaming tracks. Now, this rebuilding process has simply been given a new name \u2014 making a combination,\u201d he remarked.\u201cBe thankful Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc weren\u2019t here. Wherever such conditions exist, our players will be exposed,\u201d Akhtar said.The former pacer also criticised senior Pakistan batters <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/babar-azam\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Babar Azam<\/a> and Mohammad Rizwan.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>What do you think is the main reason for Pakistan&#8217;s poor performance in ODIs?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have played so much cricket; you should try to finish the game yourself,\u201d Akhtar said.\u201cWhen Babar bats, he looks so good. He just needs to accelerate and finish the match. If you\u2019ve scored a fifty, the next fifty should come quickly. You\u2019ve already spent an hour at the crease, you understand the pitch \u2014 now just double it up.\u201dPakistan beat West Indies in the first one-day international on Friday by five wickets. West Indies leveled the series with a five-wicket victory in the second ODI.Pakistan won the preceding Twenty20 series 2-1 played in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Hesson and Babar Azam Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has questioned the appointment of Mike Hesson as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,40807,740,43914,51273,6422,53907,52972,52971,85,10482],"class_list":{"0":"post-67870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-babar-azam","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-mike-hesson","13":"tag-mohammad-rizwan","14":"tag-odi-cricket","15":"tag-pakistan-cricket-team","16":"tag-pakistan-vs-west-indies","17":"tag-shoaib-akhtar","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-west-indies-cricket"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}