English proficiency of cricket players

One thing I would like to mention is that our cricket players are now winning matches, and this national team shall be playing against many Test playing nations, both at home and abroad. After each of such matches, whether our team wins or loses, there will always be a chance for having the best player of the match from our side.

What I saw on the last and final day of the Test match at the MA Aziz Stadium was poor English from the Man of the Match. He could not tell what he wanted to! Even the captain of the team could not tell much when asked about the performance and the future plan for the team. The same poor performance of the captain was there on the screen after he lost the "toss" on 14 January, 2005 -- the first day of the second Test in Dhaka. I thought the players are at least fluent in English, if not in playing cricket, since they have had English-speaking coaches for the last few years.

The Pakistani players sometimes speak in their own language that is not recognisable to millions of spectators all over the world when the match is a live telecast from any stadium.

I think the players should develop the habit of speaking in English, the language understood all over the world.