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PCB council to approve Miandad's contract

By Our Sports Correspondent
27 December 1998



LAHORE, Dec 26: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) council, besides deciding captain and manager of the Pakistan team for the upcoming Indian tour, will approve the contract signed with Javed Miandad by the PCB as coach of the team when it will meet at Lahore on January 3.

Pakistan is touring India next month to play first Asian Test Championship involving Sri Lanka. Pakistan will also play separate Test series and One-day matches against India.

According to agenda, the meeting will consider new captain of the team along with the existing captain Aamir Sohail under whose captaincy Pakistan won the third Sahara Cup at Toronto (Canada), beating India 4-1 in five-match series. But Pakistan lost home Test and One-Day series to Australia (1-0) and Test series to Zimbabwe (1-0) under Sohail captaincy.However, Pakistan won the One-Day series to Zimbabwe 2-1.

Former captains Wasim Akram and Moin Khan are other players in the run for captaincy. However, Wasim Akram's chances are bleak as he is facing betting allegations and one-man commission headed by justice Abdul Qayyum is investigating into the scandal.

The matter to approve the contract of Javed Miandad has been pending since his assignment as coach when Pakistan toured Canada. The decision whether to continue Azhar Zaidi as manager of the team or not will also be taken in the meeting. Azhar Zaidi has also been continuing as manager of the team since Canada's tour.

Wasim Bhatti who was the manager of Pakistan 'A' team which recently toured New Zealand will present his report about the tour to the council.

Azhar Zaidi has already briefed the council about the home series against Zimbabwe when it held an emergent meeting at Lahore after Pakistan lost the first Test to Zimbabwe at Peshawar by seven wickets. The remaining two Tests, one each at Lahore and Faisalabad were abandoned due to foggy weather.


Source: Dawn
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