Pakistan Cricket Board has recently appointed former fast bowler Aaqib Javed as the interim coach of Pakistan’s white ball cricket team till Champions Trophy-2025. Javed will also continue to work as a selector. In such a situation, he will have to handle double responsibility. Now Pakistan’s white ball cricket team has also got a new batting coach. PCB has taken a big decision to choose the batting coach. PCB has given this responsibility to a veteran who has not played a single international match for Pakistan.
Pakistani team gets new batting coach
Pakistan team recently visited Australia. During this period, very poor play was seen from Pakistan’s batsmen. Especially in the T20 series, all the batsmen were seen struggling to score runs. In such a situation, now Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to make Shahid Aslam the batting coach of the national white ball team. Aslam is a qualified coach, having worked with the Pakistan team for many years in various capacities including assistant coach, fielding coach and assistant manager.
However, for the last two years he has been working on a coaching post at the High Performance Center in Lahore. Now on the recommendation of coach Aaqib Javed, Aslam has been brought as batting coach. Before this, former Test captain Mohammad Yousuf was working as a batting coach with the Pakistan team and then he was made the selector of the national team. But Yusuf had resigned from both the posts. He is now working in High Performance Centre. Yusuf had also recently resigned from his post at the High Performance Center but the PCB has rejected his resignation.
Shahid Aslam’s cricket career
Shahid Aslam may not have played international cricket, but he has played domestic cricket. He has played 17 first class and 16 List A matches. In first class, he has scored 367 runs and also taken 34 wickets. At the same time, he has 205 runs and 12 wickets in his name in List A. He played these matches between 1994 and 2000. 55 year old Aslam has been active in the world of coaching since then. Now he can join the team for the Zimbabwe tour. This tour is going to start from 24th November.
