{"id":29160,"date":"2020-07-02T19:44:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29160"},"modified":"2020-07-02T19:44:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:14:23","slug":"younis-once-held-a-knife-to-my-throat-when-i-offered-him-advice-former-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29160","title":{"rendered":"Younis once held a knife to my throat when I offered him advice: Former Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11609440_Younis-once-held-a-knife-to-my-throat-when-I-offered-him-advice--Flower.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi<\/strong>:\u00a0Former Pakistan batting coach Grant Flower has claimed that ex-skipper Younis Khan had once held a knife to his throat when he tried to offer him some advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked about the tricky characters that he has had to coach in his career, the 49-year-old Zimbabwean, who was Pakistan&#8217;s batting coach from 2014 to 2019, recalled the incident with Younis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Younis Khan quite tough to master,&#8221; said Flower, who is currently serving as Sri Lanka&#8217;s batting coach, said during a conversation with brother Andy and host Neil Manthorp on the &#8216;Following On Cricket Podcast&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I remember one incident in Brisbane, during the Test, at breakfast, I tried to give him a bit of batting advice &#8230; But he didn&#8217;t take kindly to my advice and brought a knife to my throat, with Mickey Arthur sitting alongside, who had to intervene.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Younis, who was recently appointed as batting coach for Pakistan&#8217;s tour of England, has amassed 10,099 runs in 118 Tests for Pakistan at an average of 52.05.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s been interesting. But that&#8217;s part of coaching. It makes it a hell of a journey, and I&#8217;ve really enjoyed it. I&#8217;ve still got a lot to learn, but I&#8217;m very fortunate to be in the position I am,&#8221; Flower said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident happened during the opening Test of Pakistan&#8217;s tour of Australia in 2016 at Brisbane where Younis had scored a duck in the first innings but managed a 65 in the second essay. He had ended the tour with a fine 175 not out in the third Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakisan had lost the three-Test series 3-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flower also singled out Pakistan opening batsman Ahmed Shehzad as another &#8220;interesting&#8221; character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a very skilful batter, but quite rebellious. Every team has got their rebel. Sometimes it makes them better players, sometimes maybe not so,&#8221; said Flower, who had scored 3457 runs in 67 Tests and 6571 runs in 221 ODIs for Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI New Delhi:\u00a0Former Pakistan batting coach Grant Flower has claimed that ex-skipper Younis Khan had once held a knife to his throat when he tried to offer him some advice. Asked about the tricky characters that he has had to coach in his career, the 49-year-old Zimbabwean, who was Pakistan&#8217;s batting coach from 2014 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}