Lahore, Jan 31: Mickey Arthur and the (Pakistan Cricket Board) PCB are nearing an agreement that will see Arthur return to the Pakistan men’s squad, albeit as team director rather than as a head coach.
Three weeks before the PCB’s announcement that it was pressing forward with its search for a successor to Saqlain Mushtaq, the departing Pakistan coach, talks between the two parties had ended.
Given that Arthur had a long-term contract with Derbyshire that he did not wish to cancel, the two parties had been unable to come to an agreement on how such a post could function.
But temporary chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board Najam Sethi said last week that he was still looking for Arthur.
A deal will soon be finalised, and Arthur might take over as team director on April 1 as per ESPNcricinfo.
This title, one in which Arthur will serve as a consultant rather than the team’s head coach, will result in an unorthodox management system, at least on a global scale, in which the former head coach won’t go with Pakistan’s team on every outing but will instead delegate responsibility for running things to a hand-selected group of support personnel. (ANI)
