Javed’s interim appointment runs till March 9, 2025, coinciding with the tip of the ICC Champions Trophy being staged in Pakistan.
Pakistan has once more modified its teaching lineup, appointing former quick bowler Aaqib Javed as interim head coach for the white ball staff.
Prior to now two years, Pakistan cricket has ploughed by way of 5 coaches, three board heads, three captains and quite a few codecs of the home competitors, whereas struggling a string of humiliating defeats.
Javed will substitute Jason Gillespie who steered the nationwide facet to a latest 2-1 ODI away collection victory over world champions Australia, earlier than slumping to a 3-0 T20 collection defeat towards the Aussies.
Gillespie, Pakistan’s red-ball head coach, had changed former South African Gary Kirsten who resigned over variations with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) final month.
“Aaqib Javed, a former worldwide quick bowler, is appointed because the interim head coach of the Pakistan males’s cricket staff till the ICC Champions Trophy 2025,” mentioned a PCB launch on Monday.
It refuted stories Gillespie – the previous Australian star bowler – can be eliminated, asserting he would stay red-ball head coach for the two-match Take a look at collection in South Africa subsequent month.
Javed can be a member of Pakistan’s senior choice committee which has been repeatedly reshuffled since Pakistan’s Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi took over as PCB chairman in February.
A everlasting head coach can be appointed after the ICC Champions Trophy which Pakistan is because of host from February 19 till March 9 – topic to India’s participation.
Final week, India threw the eight-team worldwide competitors into query by refusing to ship their squad to Pakistan on safety fears and proposed their matches be performed at a impartial venue outdoors the nation.
The PCB mentioned it will not settle for a hybrid mannequin and insisted the entire match ought to be staged in Pakistan.
Javed’s first task can be three ODIs and three T20Is in Zimbabwe from November 24 till December 5, adopted by a white-ball tour of South Africa beginning December 10.
Within the lead-up to the Champions Trophy 2025, Pakistan will host New Zealand and South Africa for an ODI triangular collection from February 8-14.