Pakistan Cricket Team: Jason Gillespie turned down an offer to coach Pakistan for all formats. The Pakistan Cricket Board then appointed national selector Aqib Javed as the interim limited-overs coach. Now the PCB has appointed Shahid Aslam as the batting coach of the national team after the Australia tour. Aslam has previously worked with the Pakistan team as an assistant coach, fielding coach and assistant manager for several years. He has been working as a coach at the High Performance Center in Lahore for the past two years.
The post was given on the recommendation of Aqib Javed
Before Shahid Aslam, former Test captain Mohammad Yousuf was working as the national team’s batting coach but was later made the national selector. However, Yusuf later left the position of selector and batting coach and started working at the High Performance Centre. Yusuf had also recently resigned from the post of High Performance Center but the PCB rejected his resignation. Aslam has now been made the batting coach on the recommendation of Aqib Javed, the interim coach of the limited overs team.
Has not played a single international match for Pakistan
55-year-old Shahid Aslam has not played a single international match for the Pakistan team. He has taken 34 wickets in 17 first-class matches in domestic cricket for Pakistan. He has taken 12 wickets in 16 List-A matches. Apart from this, he has scored a total of 367 runs including three half-centuries in his first-class career.
The Pakistani team is yet to play three ODIs and three T20I series against Zimbabwe. The captain of the team for the ODI series is Mohammad Rizwan. Salman Ali Agha has been given the captaincy of the team for the T20 series. Pakistan recently won the ODI series against Australia and faced defeat in the T20I series.
Pakistan squad for ODI and T20 series to tour Zimbabwe:
ODI Team: Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafiq, Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniel, Faisal Akram, Haris Rauf, Haseebullah (in wicket), Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Rizwan (Captain), Mohammad Irfan Khan, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Shahnawaz Dahani and Tayyub. Tahir
T20 Team: Ahmed Daniyal, Arafat Minhas, Haris Rauf, Haseebullah (wk), Jahandad Khan, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Irfan Khan, Omair bin Yousuf, Qasim Akram, Sahibzada Farhan, Salman Ali Agha (c), Sufiyan Mokim, Tayyab Tahir and Usman Khan
(Input: PTI)
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