The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to appoint a full-time batting
coach and has advertised for the post on its website. The role of
batting coach is currently being handled by the head coach, Dav
Whatmore, with the coaching staff also including Julien Fountain
(fielding) and Mohammad Akram (bowling).
The advertisement calls for candidates with at least Level III coaching
accreditation, and at least five years' experience working with top
cricketers. The deadline for applying is November 4.
Pakistan cricket teams have generally had plenty of quality bowling
options to depend on, and the batting has been seen as the weaker
department. The idea of having a batting coach has been circulating for
last three years, but it didn't get the PCB's approval till now.
After the exit of Ijaz Butt as PCB chairman last year, his successor,
Zaka Ashraf, planned to recruit a specialist coaching panel covering
batting, bowling and fielding but ended up appointing Whatmore with the
additional responsibilities of batting coach. The decision to hire a
separate batting coach has been taken this week after a detailed review
of Pakistan's performance at the World Twenty20, where the team reached
the semi-final only to lose to Sri Lanka by 16 runs while chasing a target of 140.
Pakistan's next assignment is the tour of India, to plasy a series of
three ODI and two Twenty20s, followed by the South Africa tour that
begins next February
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