That unpredictability tag always sort of hangs around the Pakistan team, but that makes us very exciting as well.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

For Pakistan cricket to stay relevant and strong, the best players have to be available all the time - it's a challenge faced by everyone, but one that particularly relates to us because of our mainly amateur, pretty random, and certainly too thinly spread domestic structure that feeds the national team.

I think Pakistan was always a destination where it was hard to come and win. I was the coach of the South African team which came here in 2007. We won the Test and one-day series and that was a massive win and achievement because not many sides had come and won in Pakistan.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out that the South African bowling attack is exceptionally good.