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T20 World Cup is to be organized in the month of June this year. Due to this tournament, all the teams are focusing a lot on the T20 format. Pakistan cricket team is also participating in this tournament. Under the leadership of new chairman Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has started preparations for the World Cup to be held in USA and West Indies. The board is now considering appointing foreign coaches and support staff for this tournament. An informed source of the board has given this information.
The source gave big information
Regarding the new president of Pakistan, the source said that Mohsin Naqvi is keen to look at the coaching options available for Pakistan and is willing to appoint foreign coaches and support staff. Naqvi has already asked the chief selector, Wahab Riaz, to talk to some of the available options and short-list candidates as he knows that the way Mickey Arthur, Grant Bradburn and Andrew Puttick have been dropped is because of the foreign coaches. Cannot show interest in joining Pakistan team. After the World Cup, he was removed from his post and his contract was cut short.
Naqvi was appointed PCB chief earlier this month for a three-year tenure. The source said Wahab, who has worked as his advisor on sports in the Punjab government and is very close to the chairman, has been entrusted with the task of holding preliminary discussions with potential candidates. The PCB recently removed Muhammad Hafeez from the post of team director, although the former Test captain was assured that he would get a three-year contract by the board’s previous chairman Zaka Ashraf.
Coaching staff may change
The future of other coaches including Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal are also in danger as they were brought in by Hafeez. The source said Naqvi was also not convinced that Shaheen Shah Afridi was the best choice to lead the T20 team and had ranked Mohammad Rizwan as a better option to captain in both white-ball formats. . The source said that there is no doubt that Shaheen’s performance as captain in the Pakistan Super League is under scrutiny.
(PTI Inputs)
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