Aqib Javed. —PCB/ File
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday introduced the appointment of Aqib Javed, a former worldwide quick bowler, because the interim head coach of the Pakistan males’s cricket group till the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
Throughout this tenure, Aqib will proceed to function a senior member of the boys’s Nationwide Choice Committee, and might be assigned extra tasks following the conclusion of the eight-team event, the board mentioned in a press release.
In the meantime, the PCB will provoke the recruitment course of for a everlasting white-ball head coach, aiming to finish the appointment by the tip of the ICC Champions Trophy scheduled from February 19 to March 9.
The white-ball teaching function had turn into vacant following the resignation of Gary Kirsten. Purple-ball head coach Jason Gillespie had coached the facet through the current tour of Australia, who will now rejoin the facet for the upcoming two-Check sequence in South Africa.
The Pakistan males’s facet is scheduled to play three ODIs and three T20Is in Zimbabwe (November 24 – December 5) and as many white-ball matches in South Africa (December 10-22 ).
Within the lead-up to the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Pakistan will host New Zealand and South Africa for an ODI triangular sequence from February 8-14.
