NEW DELHI: Pakistan cricketer Ahmed Shehzad has brazenly criticized the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) following the sudden resignation of Gary Kirsten, the white-ball head coach.
Shehzad took to social media platform X (previously Twitter) to precise his frustration with PCB’s administration.
“One other day, one other humiliation for PCB administration. Empty guarantees and lies don’t go nicely with everybody. We should follow our phrases if we need to survive in modern-day cricket!” Shehzad wrote, reflecting widespread considerations in regards to the board’s instability.
Kirsten, a former South African cricketer and the coach behind India’s 2011 World Cup triumph, was appointed in April 2024 on a two-year contract to guide Pakistan’s ODI and T20 groups.
Nonetheless, his stint lasted simply six months, elevating eyebrows in regards to the inside politics inside the PCB.
The PCB introduced Kirsten’s resignation by way of X, stating that his departure was accepted, and present Check group coach Jason Gillespie would assume accountability for the upcoming white-ball tour of Australia.
“The Pakistan Cricket Board as we speak introduced Jason Gillespie will coach the lads’s cricket group on subsequent month’s white-ball tour of Australia after Gary Kirsten submitted his resignation,” learn the assertion.
Reviews recommend that tensions started when the PCB stripped each Kirsten and Gillespie of their voting powers in group choice. The transfer hinted at underlying friction between the board and its teaching employees, probably influencing Kirsten’s choice to step down.
Because the group gears up for the Australia sequence, all eyes might be on Gillespie’s tenure and whether or not the PCB can restore stability – an more and more pressing want amid this wave of public displeasure.
