Regular prayers and gatherings were organized and the players lectured by TJ men on the virtues of faith.
The young lot soon fell in line believing that failing to do so may isolate them in the squad or even cost them their place in the team.
Players were also encouraged to openly display their religiosity and many of them hailed the team's new-found culture. But it wasn't only the players that did that.
After the team under Inzamam began to settle down and produce impressive results, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the team's South African coach, late Bob Woolmer, also began to praise Inzamam's tactics.
They agreed that these tactics had not only changed the team's culture for good, it had stabilised Pakistan cricket (after the 2003 World Cup debacle) and made the players more hard-working and disciplined.
Inzamam's captaincy reached its peak when his team toppled the Ashes-winning English side 2-0 in 2005-6, and then went on to not only square the hard-fought Test series against India (in India), but pulverise the Indian side 5-1 in the following ODI series. Inzamam himself was in devastating form as a batsman during these series.
By 2006, however, Inzamam's tactics had begun to wear thin. By then the team was regularly going on tours with an entourage of famous TJ members and preachers. As his insecurities as a captain grew, so did his demands for a show of religiosity from the players.
Some players began to react negatively. His vice-captain, Younis Khan, though a religious man (who kept his faith private), never fell in line with Inzamam's demands.
Former PCB chief, Shahryar Khan, claims that Inzamam was never secure as a captain and was weary of Younis whom he thought was out to usurp his captaincy.
Khan also suggested (in a 2013 book), that Inzamam kept talented players like Misbah-ul-Haq and Saeed Ajmal out of the team. According to Khan, Inzamam thought that Misbah's cosmopolitan, world-weary and liberal disposition might threaten his (Inzamam's) regime based on a particular brand of the faith.
But it was tear-away fast bowler, Shoaib Akhtar, who reacted the most aggressively against Inzamam's devices. Being a throwback of the more flamboyant and extroverted era of Pakistan cricket, Akhtar regularly clashed with Inzamam and refused to toe the new party line.
Inzamam's captaincy finally collapsed during the 2007 World Cup. Officials touring with the team complained that Inzimam and other players who had joined the TJ were putting more effort in trying to find fresh recruits for TJ than in playing cricket.
Inzamam retired from the game in 2007 and became a full-time preacher with the TJ.
Captaincy Record (2003-2007):
Tests: 11 won, 10 lost, 9 drawn.
ODIs: 55 won, 33 lost, 3 no result.
T20: 1 won.
