Legendary Australian captain and batter Ricky Ponting mentioned that his former teammate Jason Gillespie is a “deep thinker” and backed him to do nice because the red-ball coach of the Pakistan males’s group. In April 2024, Gillespie was appointed as the top coach of Pakistan red-ball facet. Gillespie will take cost for the ICC World Check Championship fixtures in opposition to Bangladesh (at house ranging from August 21), adopted by Exams in opposition to England (at house in October) and South Africa (away in December) within the 2024-25 season.
Talking on ICC evaluation, Ponting in contrast the previous pacer to present Indian group head coach and former opener Gautam Gambhir.
“Jason Gillespie is a bit like Gambhir. Just about in every single place he has been, his teaching report has been very superb. He may have some challenges I obtained little doubt about it. However he’s a deep thinker and as I mentioned, a quiet person who goes about it in his personal manner,” mentioned Gillespie.
“Now we have obtained a couple of WhatsApp teams over time, all of us previous guys which have performed collectively. So everybody’s congratulated him (Gillespie) and wished him luck in that position. And look, to be sincere, I’m not shocked in any respect by the quantity of modifications in that group. I do know it’s a completely different format however that they had a really disappointing T20 World Cup. In case you are not prepared to make some modifications, you expect comparable outcomes to come back your manner,” he added.
In his teaching profession, the previous Australian pacer has coached a number of sides in numerous capacities, like Indian Premier League (IPL) Punjab Kings, Massive Bash League (BBL) facet Adelaide Strikers, England counties Yorkshire and Sussex, South Australia and so forth.
Pakistan’s Check sequence in opposition to Bangladesh will start on August 21 in Rawalpindi. In the meantime, Saud Shakeel has been named as the brand new Pakistan Check vice-captan forward of the sequence.
The group have promoted Saud Shakeel to the position of vice-captain because the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) introduced a 17-player squad for his or her two-match Check sequence.
Pakistan at the moment sits in fifth place on the ICC World Check Championship standings and will probably be in search of a pair of constructive outcomes in opposition to Bangladesh to stay in contact with the pacesetters of the competitors, as per the ICC.
Pakistan squad: Shan Masood (c), Saud Shakeel (vc), Aamir Jamal (topic to health), Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Huraira, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Shaheen Afridi.
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