Pakistan appoint Aaqib Javed as interim white-ball head-coach

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed former fast bowler Aaqib Javed as the interim head coach of the national white-ball team. Javed will be in charge of the Pakistan ODI and T20I teams until the Champions Trophy to be held next year in Pakistan from February 19 to March 9.

Earlier, Gary Kirsten stepped down as the white-ball coach after which Jason Gillespie served as the interim coach for the ODI and T20I series on Australian soil. During his tenure with the senior men’s team, Javed will remain the senior member of the men’s National Selection Committee.

The PCB, in the meantime, also said that it would start the process of recruitment for the permanent head coach of the Pakistan and has planned to complete it by the end of the Champions Trophy.