The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed former bowling allrounder Yasir Arafat as the brand new high performance coach ahead of Pakistan’s forthcoming five-match T20I tour of New Zealand.
Arafat will be part of Pakistan’s 17-member T20I squad for the series in Lahore quickly and can journey with them to New Zealand for the series beginning with the primary T20I on January 12 at Eden Park in Auckland.
Arafat, 41, has respectable taking part in expertise on the worldwide degree. The Rawalpindi-born represented Pakistan in three Test matches, 11 ODIs and 13 T20Is.Â
He was an element of the Pakistan crew led by Shoaib Malik who misplaced the ultimate of the inaugural ICC World Twenty 20 to India and likewise performed a job in serving to Pakistan win the ICC World Twenty 20 in England in 2009.
Yasir will substitute Simon Helmut, who’s at present performing the function of Pakistan’s high performance coach in Australia, a supply instructed the information company PTI.
“Yasir’s appointment came about on the recommendation of the national team’s director Muhammad Hafeez who is calling the shots in Australia even above captain, Shah Masood,” the supply was quoted as saying by PTI.
Notably, Pakistan’s forthcoming tour of New Zealand holds a lot of significance for quite a few causes. It will mark the start of Shaheen Shah Afridi’s T20I captaincy profession. Shaheen has been pretty spectacular within the Pakistan Super League (PSL) as captain of Lahore Qalandars.
In addition to that, the tour will serve as a preparatory series for the 2009 T20 World Cup winners ahead of the eagerly awaited ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.
Pakistan’s T20I squad for the New Zealand series:
Shaheen Shah Afridi (c), Aamer Jamal, Abbas Afridi, Abrar Ahmed, Azam Khan, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Haseebullah Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Wasim, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Usama Mir, Zaman Khan
