PCB eager to extend bowling coach Aaqib Javed's contract - Cricket News Update
The Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman, Zaka Ashraf has said that the board is eager to retain Aaqib Javed as bowling coach and will offer him a long-term contract. His term with Pakistan cricket team expires at the end of the ongoing
England series.
The former Pakistan pacer reportedly wants to move on to the UAE as the head coach of the side. The current UAE coach, Kabir Khan, who is also a former Pakistani cricketer, wants to step down from the role due to personal problems
and is most likely to rejoin the Afghanistan cricket team. Aaqib Javed is one of the 30 candidates shortlisted for the vacant position of the UAE coach and the Emirates Cricket Board is interested in hiring him.
There has been no official word from the former pacer in this regard, but the Pakistan Cricket Board has said that it will try to retain him in the support staff.
“His name was recommended by the coach committee as a bowling coach for the Pakistan cricket team," said the PCB chief, Zaka Ashraf while speaking to ESPNcricinfo.
"Though his contract finishes at the end of the England series, we are all set to extend his contract and offer him a long-term role as bowling coach,” he added further.
The PCB chairman said that the former Pakistan pacer has not yet informed the board about his resignation or any kind of move forward adding that if the incumbent bowling coach has decided to move on, then the board would negotiate
with him and make every possible effort to retain him.
“There has been no official word from Aaqib, but the PCB wants to extend his contract as a specialist bowling coach with the three-man coaching panel likely to be headed by Dav Whatmore," said Ashraf.
There have been reports that it is the hefty salary offered by the Emirates Cricket Board that has attracted Aaqib. When asked about the pay package, the PCB Chairman said that it was Aaqib’s right to go for the best possible option
and board would not interfere in his personal matters.