Corruption. This is not the right attitude shown by the PCB. This is not right because they think that foreign coaches would not be the right option for the Pakistani team. I believe Lawson would be a good coach for the team. Furthermore there must be some major reason why he was removed. Was it because he did not try hard enough in the T20 Canada? It was the selection problem which costed Pakistan a loss in the final. The Selectors chose a young and inexperienced team led by an inexperienced captain. If this problem was solved maybe Pakistan would have won and Geff Lawson would remain coach of the Pakistani team.

this is crazy, i dont understand why on earth did they take this decision? i mean what performance are they talking about? did the management,so far,drag any single good series to the country? forget about the good series, even countries like west indies, bangladesh and zimbabwe think twice now before agreeing to visit pakistan. i mean whose failure is this? the coach or the managment? how can the management ask for performance if the team is not being able to play a single tough tournment against a quailty team (forget about the twenty20 against srilanka). what is troubling you PCB? what is wrong with u people? take them out of here for heaven sake. this is even more dangerous.changing coach again n again n again n again..... what is wrong with PCB..people are laughing at you..grow up and take a breath..its not some college/university level board making changes every now and then.....some body please tell them to get a life you ..ahhhhh

Now that Lawson has been sacked,we need to look forward.In my opinion,Aqib Javed would be the best choice to coach Pakistan team.He has got an excellent record as a coach.Under his coaching,pakistan won youth worldcup twice.Also,pakistan cricket academy team won all their 10 matches on Zimbabve & kenyan soil against their National sides.Also,he seems to have right attitude & temperament.Above all,noone can challenge his sincerity & dedication to Pakistan cricket.So my vote is with Aqib.

i think the lawson chapter in pakistan cricket should end and pakistan should hire a new coach as soon as possible and look forward to cricketing activites in the near future.

Now that the coach is fired ,PCB should hire a permanent experienced pakistani coach who at least would have played minimum 20 test and some one dayers ,then hire proper PCB officials who also have some good experience in playing the game as well who can stand up against so called senior players(if any of them left).It will take at least 1 year for the young talent to mix together ,which is better than past 2 Years of agony we have seen ,Good Luck Ijaz Butt..

the blame can not all fall on the coach. I think that its the players fault that they lost to India and South Africa. There is a limit as to how much the coach can do. After that its up to the players. So i don't think that he should have been sacked so early.

Bad Pakistan politics also plays a major part in Pakistan's cricket. Each time leader of Pakistan changes the whole PCB starts from scratch. The PCB chairman is decided by the President in this case Mr Zardari who chose Ijaz Butt. President choose the chairman either he is from their party or they know him personally. The new chairman Ijaz Butt has no clue what he is doing. All he wants to do is remove everything that was under the regime or President Musharraf when Nasim Ashraf was the chairman. All this politics is ruining Pakistans Cricket. Sacking Geoff Lawson is another example of the poor and shameful decisions that have been taken by Ijaz Butt since he took over. The new chairman cant seem to stick to his words. First they could not afford to terminate the contract and now all of the sudden they have funds to sack Lawson. Its not about how bad or how well he was doing it was the way the decision was taken. Shoaib malik is lucky that he has not been sacked yet.

I will say again what I have said many times before - why are major countries hiring foreign coaches? It is one thing for struggling countries like Bangladesh or Zimbabwe to do it, but Pakistan is a major country in themselves, so why do they need it? Don't they have any former players who can coach to a good level? At least then they could understand the language, the culture and what a coach needs to do. In Pakistan you need to have a degree of diplomacy to handle reactions from various quarters. Lawson simply doesn't have that. Hopefully they can put in someone like Inti or Miandad, who can hopefully bring Pakistan out of these problems that they are currently in.

Pakistan is a political mess right from the top to the bottom and politics seems to have eaten up the system hollow. If they think Lawson was incapable, let them be reminded that it was after he joined that Pakistan reached the T20 finals in South Africa. I think it is completely unfair to single out one person if the team is plagued by injuries and does not perform. After all, that's their style; someone has to be a scape goat...

Lawson was hired to "instill some Australian attitude" to the team. It was a joke even before he started. A psychologist would have been a better choice. You cannot win with merely an attitude. There are several other things Australians do to win. I think someone like Aqib or Mudassar Nazar who I think are very intelligent people with the right "Pakistani" attitude should be brought in. And no one should expect them to turn things around in weeks. The new coach should be given some time and space to settle himself in and build the team. The people who really need to turn things around are the ones in PCB. In my opinion, some changes need to be made in our first class game to make it more competitive and thats where PCB officials should spend more time. Lets hope PCB is not made to look like PPP or PML any more.