By Ubaid Awan
KARACHI
(TheSportsNext) September 8, 2012: Former Pakistani captain and ex-head
coach Javed Miandad has been appointed as batting consultant of the national
cricket team for the upcoming 2012 ICC World Twenty20, sources told
TheSportsNext.com on Saturday.
The 2012 ICC World Twenty20 is commencing from September 18,
2012 in Sri Lanka where cricket teams from across the world would vie for supremacy
in the shortest format of the game.
Sources told this scribe that PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf made
the appointment on Saturday after realizing the need to have senior
professional with the team during the mega event.
Javed Miandad will remain with the Men in Green during the
course of the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, sources added.
Javed Miandad, 55, who represented Pakistan between 1975 and
1996, is the country’s leading run scorer in Test cricket.
Regarded as the “greatest batsman Pakistan has ever produced”
by ESPNcricinfo, Javed Miandad has previously worked with the PCB as batting
coach of the national cricket team but his over-enthusiasm and habit of
interfering into players’ issues made senior cricketers in the team to get him
off the job in 2003.
Miandad has had a total of three coaching stints with the national
cricket team.
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