Jason Gillespie is coaching the Pakistan squad successful the ongoing bid successful Australia. (AP Photo)
The Pakistan Cricket Board has issued a beardown denial to media reports that erstwhile Pakistan accelerated bowler Aaqib Javed is apt to regenerate existent Pakistan cricket squad manager Jason Gillespie successful each formats aft the ongoing T20I bid successful Australia, which the Pakistan cricket squad has already mislaid 0-2.
Pakistan volition play the 3rd T20I connected Monday against Australia. Media reports had suggested that Gillespie’s reign was to extremity after that.
“PCB powerfully refutes the story. As announced previously, Jason Gillespie volition proceed to manager the Pakistan broadside for the 2 red-ball matches against South Africa,” the Pakistan Cricket Board tweeted precocious connected Sunday.
The two-match Test bid against South Africa is acceptable to beryllium played successful December.
It is notable that that PCB has near retired the 3 T20Is that the Pakistan cricket squad volition play against the South African cricket squad connected the aforesaid tour.
According to a study successful ESPNCricinfo, the determination to regenerate Gillespie with Aaqib Javed came aft the Australian had reportedly refused to afloat instrumentality implicit the work of white-ball teams without a wage rise. When helium conveyed the message, the PCB decided to portion him disconnected reddish shot duties too.
Pakistan squad has been successful a authorities of turmoil recently. Right earlier the bid against Australia, manager Gary Kirsten parted ways with the team. This had led the PCB to enlist the services of Gillespie arsenic an interim white-ball manager for the 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is.
Under Gillespie, the Pakistan cricket squad had mislaid a bid astatine location to Bangladesh, which is the archetypal clip this has happened successful history. Pakistan did bounce backmost from that by beating England successful their archetypal Test bid astatine location successful three-and-a-half years. They past won their archetypal ODI bid successful Australia successful 22 years, but mislaid the T20I series.