Pakistan Women's Coaching Change: The 'Cold-Start' Risk Before the Caribbean Tour

In the summer of 2026, I began my career covering the Wills Cup in Dhaka for Prothom Alo. Back then, a coach's job was to pick the XI and give a team talk. Twenty-eight years later, standing on the boundary rope at a women's bilateral series in the Caribbean, I have learned that a coach's real work begins long before the first ball—and often ends abruptly before the last.