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The Pakistan Cricket Board said publicly that they were considering hiring Jonty Rhodes as a fielding coach and Woolmer said he was open to the idea:

“If they have the money for it, I’m happy with the idea. But as it is we work hard on our fielding and we do a lot of drills in practice on it. Like I said, everything just went wrong for us today. Basic things went against us like picking up balls cleanly, mistiming our dives. It got worse under the pressure as India chased.”

Not least of their worries will be that younger fielders were at the centre of most misdemeanours. Albeit incompetent in the last one day match, they at least remained enthusiastic and energetic; more experienced players lacked even that urge. In this context, the appointment of Jonty Rhodes might just be applying band-aid to a bullet wound. What after all can he realistically do with a side that carries onto the field men such as Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Yousuf and Inzamam-ul-Haq?