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Watch and read part one of the interview hereWhen you gave up the game, was there a sense of relief at that time, and did you think you would stay involved with cricket in this capacity? How did the idea of coaching germinate in your mind? I always wanted to stay around the game - this is all I know. When I left cricket, I went away for a year and then I started coming back into the media side and I did commentary. I did a bit of coaching, but more media [work].Then I felt that I can make things better in Pakistan cricket. In 2009, I put in my application for the [coachs position]. I did a couple of courses and I got the job. And I enjoyed every bit of it.Before that, you were bowling coach with Bob Woolmer. Theres the famous incident at The Oval where your team was accused of tampering with the ball. Can you think back to those memories? Yeah, I thought the whole episode was pretty ugly and it was unnecessary of the umpire [to penalise us]. We, the team and the captain, felt that it shouldnt have happened.More than the five-run penalty, it was the allegation that was ugly. The entire team sat down - Inzamam-ul-Haq was the captain - and decided, this is not fair.And you were okay with that? You thought the team should have not played? Look, my view didnt really matter in those days. Bob Woolmer, Shaharyar Khan was there, and then there were a lot of other people there. My say wasnt that important.This was not new to you. Pakistan went to England in 92, won a series famously and got accused of tampering with the ball. Is it that the skill of reverse swing is not understood? I think this art is not really understood. There are some who have understood - [Lasith] Malinga, Darren Gough, there are lot of others who have done it. [Mohammed] Shami, the youngster from India, has understood. I think people dont realise that its not only the shape of the ball or the condition of the ball. It has a lot to do with your action and the speed with which you bowl. I feel its still not really being utilised. If you look around at the fast bowlers, there are many conventional fast bowlers with a very easy action. It needs a certain kind of action to be more and more effective and more useful.Is that something that comes from the bylanes of Pakistan? How did you learn? More fast bowlers from the subcontinent have come from Pakistan - thats why probably you relate this to Pakistan. But its a subcontinent thing, because we play on very, very dry and slow and dusty pitches, where the ball gets scuffed up very quickly. When I was in the Under-19 team, I used to know how to reverse. It is something you learn when you play on those sort of surfaces.At Lords in 2010, when the no-ball incident happened, you had a conversation with Mohammad Amir about the actual delivery. When it happened, we were in a very good situation. That was the first morning of the Test match and England were five down. I sort of asked him, What the hell was that? There were couple of no-balls, and not small no-balls, they were huge no-balls.Because he was not someone who had a history of bowling no-balls. Yeah, that was more surprising for me. In the court, they asked me the same question youre asking, and I asked him the same question.Salman Butt, of course, jumped in and he said: I told him to do it because Jonathan Trott was coming down the track, and I said, just bang in a couple short, dont worry about the no-ball. This is the answer I got from the captain and the bowler, and I bought it, you know. If a captain tells you that this is a tactic, you will say, yeah okay, fair enough. They were five down for 50-odd runs - happy days.When the news breaks, as coach and as someone who has gone through this in the past yourself, was there a sick feeling in your stomach that there is something terribly wrong here, or was your first instinct, No, this cant be true. I trust my boy? It was sickening not only to me, but to the entire unit. Yawar Saeed, the manager, was very upset. We all were very upset. We couldnt really play the next day. At one stage, I thought: do I really want to carry on with this whole thing? Then I went back and spoke to my family and I couldnt really leave the team at the time. Its not their fault. Its maybe one or two who have done it, but the rest dont deserve all this. If I leave now its going to get worse. Then Misbah took over and we did extremely well after that.This young gifted bowler coming through the great legacy of you guys and all the fast bowlers who have preceded you - did you feel cheated by him? I think more than him, it was Salman Butt. I was really let down by him because he was the captain. The little one, Amir, was very, very down. Why I feel for him is because he was only 17 or 18 - very young and from a very poor background. He was just a kid. More than him, I was upset with Salman Butt.When Amirs sentence was over and he was free to play for Pakistan again, you had returned as coach and you were in his corner. A lot of people in the outside wondered that here was Waqar, betrayed as coach by this boy. Players said they would not attend camps, former cricketers said he should not be playing cricket. Why were you willing to give him another chance under your watch? We make mistakes and we get punished and then we move on. Hes a very talented kid. He could have achieved what even I didnt or even Wasim [Akram] didnt achieve. He suffered a lot for five years.And my religion also says that if someone has done something and has been punished, he deserves a chance. Salman Butt deserves a chance, Mohammad Asif deserves a chance. They have been through all the punishment they deserve.Can you talk us through the time when Amirs rehabilitation started and he was invited to a camp. A couple of players said, we will not attend this camp because we are not comfortable. Azhar Ali and Mohammad Hafeez were the two who wanted him not to be in the team. We had a lot of meetings, trying to convince Hafeez and Azhar. Not only me but even the top authorities of the board came to talk to them. We had a couple of days of difficulty, but yeah, Azhar and Hafeez accepted him and he went on to the New Zealand tour.Has he been accepted back fully into the set-up? Is he comfortable? I think so. I think people are happy with his performance, with his attitude. Attitude is the key for me when you are a top cricketer, and his attitude toward the game is 100%. I have left the job, so I dont know whats going to happen next, but in the time I spent with the team, hes been accepted. I feel that Salman Butt will also be accepted.Now your second stint as Pakistan coach is also over. There have been difficulties again. The view from the outside is that Pakistani cricketers are averse to some of the things in the modern game, like data analytics. Theres also been talk that you yourself are not very big on things of this kind. Has Pakistan cricket, in some ways, not kept up with the way the game has progressed? I think we have. I think we have done well with the analysis side of the team. But you have to understand that we are a team who are very natural. For example, take Yasir Shah. If you try to coach him too much or try to give him too much information, its going to get lost. We have analysis, we try to give all the necessary information, and we have done it over the years. We have done extremely well in Test matches, if you look back in the last two years. So the information definitely is being passed.I always feel that a certain amount of information needs to be passed and the rest is your natural skill. In our days there was no information. We used to go with natural instinct. I feel cricketers need a certain amount of information definitely, but then it comes down to the individual.There has been virtually no international cricket in Pakistan since 2009. How has that affected players? I think two things have affected Pakistan cricket in the last seven to eight years. One, of course, is cricket not being played in Pakistan. Thats a huge problem. Youngsters dont see their heroes or their top players playing in their own grounds. And on top of that, I think we have forgotten first-class cricket - we play overseas all the time, even our home series are played in Dubai - and we have forgotten where the cricketers come through.In our time, there were a lot of cricketers who were as good as we were but couldnt get the opportunity. Nowadays its hard to replace any cricketer because we dont have anyone coming through. Our academies have been shut for the last seven-eight years. There is no real work going on in the academies. We have about five academies in Pakistan that are half-done or three-quarters completed and its been shut down because there is no eye on it. We are all focusing on Dubai cricket or on the team travelling and away. We will not produce cricketers until we take care of our academies, our first-class cricket.Our first-class cricket has been expanded a lot. There are so many teams playing first-class cricket. I have given my opinion to reduce teams, to look after those academies, bring more people who are qualified, bring them from overseas. We need all of this to keep pace with the world. For the last ten or 15 years, since Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq, there hasnt been a great Pakistan batsman, whereas in the rest of the world it is the era of batting. You see higher averages, brilliant strokeplay. We dont really have that much talent. As I said, there are so many cricketers playing first-class cricket. To get to first-class should be hard work.People are not seeing Younis playing in Lahore or Karachi or Peshawar, so that interest among the younger players is going down. And nowadays cricket is changing, fitness is changing, the dieticians need to be there. There are a lot of things that need to be changed in Pakistan.When you resigned as coach, you reported that some players needed to be sent back to domestic cricket - guys like Umar Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad. But can Pakistan actually afford not play these guys at the highest level? Would the international team stay competitive if players are sent back and not considered for international selection? I think in 1999 or 1998, I was dropped from Pakistan team. I went back and played with the U-19 kids and built a team, which was called the REDCO, an Islamabad-based team. I built a team all around me with the U-19 kids. I played for them for a good half-season, gained my form, my attitude, my hunger towards the game, towards international cricket.So when I said send these guys to first-class cricket, I felt they were not hungry enough. When youre losing, you need to bring younger blood. The guys who have performed at the domestic level, dont they deserve a go?Now having worked so closely with so many Pakistan cricketers in the last few years, you see that there is actually a skill deficit. Is that your biggest concern - that there are a bunch of Pakistani cricketers emerging who will not be able to compete with the rest of the world? Its a scary thought. Talent is there. There are a lot of unknown places with a lot of talent. We need to identify that and that identification will only come by sorting out our system.When Mudassar Nazar was at the National Academy in Lahore, things were moving smoothly. We were producing cricketers who were being pushed into first-class cricket also and gaining a lot of experience from that. Nowadays there is no such thing.Do you see now that beyond Misbah and Younis, there might be a deficit of role models who young cricketers can look up to? You can say that. [In my report] I also asked for a cricket committee who should decide the cricketing matters. What is happening is that we have placed cricketing matters in a non-cricketers hand, and by that we have struggled. Once Misbah goes or Younis goes, we will be struggling for the role models. Heads need to come together and start working on it. Who is your next captain and how long? Whos your next coach and what he brings to the table.Do you see yourself ever returning to a role with the Pakistan team? I think we both need to step away from each other. I think the board also needs a little bit of space from me because Ive spoken out of hurt. I feel things need to change, because if they dont, we will be crying in maybe a couple of years time. So maybe not right now. See how it goes in the next year or so and then decide. But Im always around the game anyway.When youre walking around the streets in Pakistan, do you still see the same passion and love and for the game. Do you see that core still being intact in Pakistan? Yeah, its there but its dying. Its there because thats the only sport where the entire nation comes together. 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Who better to try to move the agenda on before she is due to compete in the womens cycling road race on Sunday?Murray, who has three Grand Slam titles (including this years Wimbledon) to go with his 2012 Olympics gold, is a consummate professional, and the idea of him erring on World Anti-Doping Agencys whereabouts rule seems unlikely. Having the guy who has called for increased testing and transparency as a figurehead cannot be a bad thing.His diligence and work rate should also be a good example to young athletes, as hes known for the attention he pays to the physical side of his game and the time and effort he devotes to it.Murray is a player who has matured and made himself stand out from the crowd despite a lack of the flashy trappings of the famous and wealthy who reside at the top of their sports.He is a father, a husband, a dog lover and a fan of a range of other sports. 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You are around the best athletes in the world and you want to perform well for your country and your teammates, he said.I remember in Beijing, although I didnt perform well, it was nice being surrounded by the best athletes in your country and seeing them come back with medals. It feels a lot more like a team environment and I have enjoyed that throughout my career.Other nations have gone a different route than Britain in selecting their flag bearers, with the U.S. picking Michael Phelps ?-- a character whose image has been a long way off squeaky clean (the swimmer has two DUIs on his record).Nicola Adams, who made history by becoming the first female Olympic boxing champion in 2012, was an alternative to Murray for the Team GB role and would also have represented some laudable values for British sport.But the Scots success, fame, conduct and credentials must have looked undeniable. Those involved in selecting him say he was brimming with pride when he was told about it, too, and the only thing that could take the edge off that would be the fact that wife Kim and daughter Sophia wont be here to see him parade with the team. ' ' '