The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed 5 former stalwarts of Pakistan cricket to mentor their home and worldwide cricketers, in preparation for the 2025 Champions Trophy. The Champions One-Day Cup might be held in Pakistan between 5 home groups, with the intention of that includes not solely the perfect home performers in Pakistan but in addition senior group gamers who’re centrally contracted. In mild of this, the PCB has named Waqar Younis, Shoaib Malik, Misbah-ul-Haq, Sarfaraz Ahmed, and Saqlain Mushtaq as mentors for the groups through the Champions One-Day Cup.
Following a loss to Bangladesh within the first Check – their first-ever Check defeat to them – the PCB appears to be in no temper to take preparations for the 2025 Champions Trophy calmly, much more in order it’s being held on residence soil.
“These 5 mentors will play a pivotal position within the growth and development of our rising cricketers. They’ll information strategic planning and team-building processes, whereas additionally offering help in management and private growth,” stated PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi, in a press launch.
The Champions One-Day Cup will begin on September 12, simply over every week after the top of Pakistan’s two-match Check collection towards Bangladesh. Will probably be held on the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad, which can see a return of One-Day cricket after greater than two years.
Naqvi reiterated that the 5 mentors had been chosen after a sturdy recruitment course of, with the intention of decreasing the standard hole between home and worldwide cricketers.
“These people convey a wealth of cricketing expertise, information and experience, which, mixed with their ardour for the sport all of us love, will assist the Pakistan Cricket Board establish, develop and nurture the following era of cricketers throughout all codecs,” Naqvi emphasised.
The 5 share greater than 32,000 runs and 1,500 wickets between them throughout all types of worldwide cricket.
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