Former Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq on Friday said he has no intention to apply for any position when the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in the near future seeks to fill the vacant posts of national team management.
“I have no intention to apply for any post [of the national team management] to be advertised soon as the current ad hoc set-up of the team management is going to be changed,” Misbah said during an interaction with media on the occasion of the annual match of Muslim Gymkhana here at the Bagh-i-Jinnah.
Misbah, 47, in a surprising decision quit as the national team’s head coach in September this year soon after returning home from Pakistan’s tour to the West Indies, citing last 24 months in managing affairs under bio-secure bubble environment forced him to take this decision.
Bowling coach Waqar, though not for the same reason, also resigned at the same time. However, it was the widely speculated that both Misbah and Waqar resigned in the backdrop of Ramiz Raja coming as PCB chairman.
These speculations gained momentum when Ramiz — instead of holding any meeting with Misbah and Waqar to ask them to review their decisions — on the day of his election as PCB chief appointed former Australian opener Matthew Hayden and ex-South Africa pace bowler Vernon Philander as batting and bowling consultants, respectively for the ICC T20 World Cup held in the UAE in October-November.—AFP
