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Former captain and Director-General of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Javed Miandad has urged the Pakistani cricketers to learn from the achievements of Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar in order to excel on the field. “We keep on reading and hearing about some of our players making tall claims about how they will deliver, but on field that is not happening and it is a big let down for the nation,” said Miandad.“I would advise them to just focus on their game and go for improvement and take every match seriously. 

They should learn from Sachin who has had a marvellous career and and yet one never hears him making tall claims about his performances or achievements. He is a proper professional and someone our players can learn from,” said the master batsman.Miandad also called on captain Shahid Afridi to take more responsibility as a player and lift the team by example and added that the all-rounder has enough talent to be a match-winner but needed to channelise it properly.“He (Afridi) shouldn`t be playing the way he is. Imran Khan is a great example of how a captain should perform. Imran lifted the team in the 1992 World Cup by his own performance and Afridi needs to start doing that himself. He did it during the World T20 Championship, so he is perfectly capable of doing it again,” Miandad said.

Urging the players to take the current one-day series against New Zealand seriously Miandad said: “Unfortunately, what I noticed was that the players didn`t appear serious about their business in the first match. In international cricket this is just not acceptable.”“It is important for the players to realise that once they get into a losing streak, it will be difficult for them to come out of it,” he said.