Former players lambast Greenshirts
Men opposite boys: Pakistan were thrashed twice by arch-rivals India, losing a initial diversion 7-1 before pang a 6-1 better in a second. PHOTO COURTESY: FIH
KARACHI: Former players and experts were not left amused by a opening of Pakistan during a Hockey World League Semi-finals, where they finished seventh and were during a wrong finish of several degrading drubbings.
There was, however, something to hearten about as a Greenshirts managed to probably validate for a 2018 World Cup as other formula went their way.
Pakistan suffered several annoying defeats in a organisation stages, losing 4-0 to Netherlands, 6-0 to Canada and misfortune of all 7-1 to arch-rivals India. However, their usually win — opposite squalid Scotland — authorised them to strech a quarter-finals by a skin of their teeth.
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In a quarter-finals, they mislaid 3-1 to Argentina, before once again being thrashed by India in a fifth-place play-off; this time losing 6-1. However, a win in a subsequent diversion opposite China authorised them to finish seventh rather than eighth and roughly book a place in a 2018 World Cup.
Former Olympian Samiullah pulled no punches and laid a censure precisely on a shoulders of a Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) for selecting such an uninformed squad.
“This was a essential contest for Pakistan given it was a possibility to directly validate for a World Cup,” he told The Express Tribune. “The PHF yet clearly did not take it severely and risked Pakistan’s place in a World Cup. They have flattering most won a berth though that is still in danger. Had they sent an gifted group afterwards this would not have happened.”
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Samiullah did acknowledge that immature players need a possibility to infer themselves before a World Cup and would have gained a lot from this experience, though he felt this was not a right time to be doing so.
“This isn’t a contest where we place uninformed players into a team,” he said. “The players who have been personification together for a while should have been sent given this group was clearly abandoned of any chemistry.”
Former PHF President Akhtar Rasool, meanwhile, felt a immature players comparison for a side were not adult to a mark.
“They haven’t hold a correct talent hunt in a nation and conjunction have they supposing these players with a correct training camp. How can they only send a group with 8 to 9 immature players who haven’t ever played an general match?” he said.
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Former arch selector Islahuddin Siddiqui was also not tender with a result, though did take satisfaction in a side subordinate for a World Cup.
“Pakistan certainly didn’t do good in this contest though they requisitioned their place in a World Cup and a players also managed to get useful experience,” he said. “The immature players didn’t do good though they contingency have schooled a lot confronting a tip teams in a world, generally in a pressure-cooker matches opposite India.”
Islahuddin feels a players need to adult a ante if they are to equivocate annoying themselves during subsequent year’s World Cup.
“These players have a lot of time before a Asia Cup and a World Cup to urge themselves,” he said. “The PHF needs to yield them with as many general matches as possible.”
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