New Delhi: Pakistan's former captain and coach Javed Miandad says Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) decision to replace him with Bob Woolmer was a good move but the team's improved performance in the Asia Cup had little to do with the Englishman's reliance on technology.

The legendary Pakistani said he strongly believed that how good a cricketer is depended on what he made out of himself rather than what the coach taught him.

"We have made so much of a coach. To me, a coach is a guide. If the team is good, then everything is the same," Miandad said while taking time off from his busy schedule.

"The basic thing is to understand the game, and cricket has not changed. It is still all about hitting the ball with a bat."

The topic of modern coaching is sensitive to Miandad since an unnamed PCB official was quoted in a local newspaper back home, at the time of his sacking, that he did not have the skills to explain the players their problems through laptops.

"I am confident of my cricket. We won the World Cup in 1992 without a coach. Now you have laptop and even then (Mohammad) Sami bowls a 17-ball over," he said.

"The players (in the Pakistan team) are the same. They won some, lost some, and lost badly too.

"Who taught Sunil Gavaskar, or Sachin Tendulkar? A good player is made of himself."

Miandad, in New Delhi for a Live Road Show "Javed Aapke Shaher Mein" for an Indian TV news channel, said that as a batsman he was very good in improvising because he always wanted to dominate the opposition and the bowler.

"A batsman has to think. He has to look to dominate, remove his own weaknesses and always keep on improving every facet of his game."

The past fortnight has seen the former cricketer go on a whirlwind tour of the country as part of his job and at times meet people whom he might not have met during his playing days.

One such person was Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena chief who was stoutly opposed to Pakistan's visit in 1999 and whose supporters dug up the Kotla pitch in an effort to disrupt the series.

"I didn't meet him with such things in mind. It was a courtesy call, he had invited me. His family too was with him and it turned out that they were keen cricket followers."

The 47-year old, known for his shrewd cricketing brain, said he was open to coaching or other offers in India but has not got one yet.

He said the Twenty20 format was suitable to England because there the County clubs needed to generate revenue to pay its players. "Otherwise, what can you do in 20 overs?"