Lahore
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Monday that altogether 130 coaches had applied for coaching roles with the six domestic Cricket Association sides for the upcoming season, which is expected to start next week.
The PCB added that the Academies budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year was Rs 167 million which was almost the same as the 2019-20 budget barring a few tweaks to the programmes, objectives and targets to align these with the five-year strategic plan.
A survey conducted by the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) revealed that the 130 coaches had expressed interest in working with the PCB following an advertisement that went out in June.
‘In accordance with PCB’s philosophy of providing equal and fair opportunity, the PCB advertised the roles in which it also invited coaches from outside the PCB system to express their interest.
‘The PCB received 130 applications from across the country of which 24 candidates were shortlisted and interviewed as per the eligibility criteria. From this, 15 coaches were employed,’ said a spokesman here when contacted by the APP.
The 15 coaches, employed by the PCB are: Abdul Razzaq, Aizaz Cheema, Basit Ali, Faisal Iqbal, Ghulam Ali, Humayun Farhat, Irfan Fazil, Zafar Iqbal (all former internationals), Aftab Khan, Aslam Qureshi, Fahad Masood, Habib Baloch, Hafiz Majid Jahangir, Hanif Malik, and Mohammad Sadiq (all former first-class cricketers).
These are separate to the high-profile appointments of Mohammad Yousuf, Mohammad Zahid and Atiq-uz-Zaman in the National High Performance Centre.
The coaches were invited to apply for the coaching roles after the PCB had carried out a detailed and comprehensive assessment
