Former Pakistan batsman Salim Malik has expressed that he was keen to apply for the position of head coach of the national cricket team.
Salim, who was recently cleared by a court of the match-fixing charges which were pinned on him by one-man judicial commission of Justice (retd) Qayyum Malik in 2000, the 53-year-old also revealed that he was interested in applying for the post of head coach but changed his mind later after the PCB seemed to be interested in hiring a foreign coach for the post.
According to media reports, “I have not been allowed to get involved in any cricket despite the court orders. I was keen to apply for the post of head coach but have changed my mind now,” said the former batsman.
“I get a feeling the PCB is more interested in appointing a foreign coach so it is no use wasting my energy. But I still want to come forward and work in club and domestic cricket,” Malik said.
He said the PCB had experimented before with foreign coaches and it was not successful.
“The primary reason for this is communication and language problems and there is also a cultural barrier between our players and a foreign coach who can’t understand our cricket culture,” he added. He said a coach’s job is to simply guide the players instead of trying to change their basic techniques.
Malik, 53, played 103 Tests and 283 one-day internationals before he was banned from all cricket.
The last date to apply for the head coach is April 25.
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