At a time, when the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is looking to appoint a head coach for the national team, Abdul Qadir, the former Pakistan spinner, recommended instead for the captain to be given all the power.‘Having a coach is a waste of money and nothing else. In cricket there is no need for a coach,’ he said on Sunday (April 24). The captain is the leader and the main driving force behind everything.‘Tell me do players who have played international cricket need any coaching. As far as motivating players or planning strategies is concerned in cricket the captain is the right man to do this.’Pakistan hasn’t had a successful run in recent times. After a dismal performance in the Asia Cup and the ICC World Twenty20 in India, Waqar Younis, the coach, and Shahid Afridi, the captain, stepped down from their respective position.What followed was blame game with Intikhab Alam, the team manager, urging the board to sack both the captain and the coach while Waqar went on to blast Afridi for his leadership.Qadir felt to put an end to all this, the captain should be made responsible for the team’s performance. ‘Whenever we lose a series or tournament the captain and coach blame each other for the results. To put an end to this practice it is best the captain is made wholly responsible for everything in the team.’Pakistan has had several foreign coaches in the past with the likes of Bob Woolmer, Dav Whatmore, Geoff Lawson at the helm of affairs. However, Qadir felt that even though Pakistan had several foreign coaches for over a decade, they failed to achieve anything with the team.‘Between 1999 and 2014 we had several foreign coaches and what have they achieved is nothing. The only time we won the 1992 World Cup or the 2009 World T20 title Intikhab Alam was in charge of the team,’ he pointed out. I would also urge the ICC to stop this practice of sending coaches or promoting coaching concepts in other countries as it achieves nothing.‘Unfortunately, in Pakistan, we tend to be impressed by the white foreigners or even those players who have left Pakistan and gone abroad to earn their living and give them key postings and financial packages with no results to show after months.’