Cricinfo has realized that the PCB is but to simply accept Misbah’s resignation; he has additionally determined to step down from his function as a batting advisor on the Nationwide Cricket Academy in Lahore..
After going 2-0 down within the three-match collection by shedding at Lord’s by 194 runs, the PCB eliminated seven gamers from the Take a look at squad and in addition launched Sarfaraz Ahmed and Umar Gul as head coach and bowling coach forward of the third Take a look at at Edgbaston from September 9.
Mohammad Rizwan, Imam-ul-Haq, Salman Agha, Ali Usman, Aamer Jamal, Awais Zafar, and Khurram Shahzad had been the seven gamers launched. 5 uncapped gamers – Arafat Minhas, Mohammad Imran Jnr, Saad Baig, Mohammad Imran Randhawa, and Razaullah – will be part of the Take a look at squad together with Saim Ayub and Abdullah Fazal. Mike Hesson and Ashley Noffke – the pinnacle coach and bowling coach of the white-ball set-up – have joined the Take a look at teaching workers.
Since retiring as Pakistan’s most profitable Take a look at captain in 2017, Misbah has served in varied capacities within the PCB. He was appointed within the twin function of head coach and chief selector in 2019. He served in each roles till October 2020, when he resigned because the chief selector to focus solely on the pinnacle teaching obligations, from which he finally resigned the subsequent 12 months.
Two years later, he was roped in as an advisor by the then chief of ad-hoc administration committee Zaka Ashraf and had since remained concerned with the PCB. He was introduced as considered one of 5 mentors for the now-defunct males’s Champions Cup after the present administration took over in 2024, and he additionally mentored ladies’s groups in home competitions. He was the coach of the Pakistan Gold facet which gained the 50-over Nationwide Champions Cup in Multan final month below Shaheen Afridi’s captaincy.
Misbah was made a part of the four-member choice committee which incorporates Aaqib Javed, Sarfaraz Ahmed, and Asad Shafiq in March this 12 months and had additionally been on a 180-days-a-year contract with the PCB as a batting advisor.
