PCB is holding negotiations with the Bangladesh coach, although he has yet not formally applied for a coaching position with the Pakistan team.
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board is holding negotiations with Bangladesh coach, Dav Whatmore although he has yet to formally apply for a coaching position with the Pakistan team.
Whatmore is also the front-runner for the coaching assignment of the Indian team and has shown keen interest in the job.
The Pakistan Board last month had advertised the position of national team coach which was left vacant after the death of Bob Woolmer in Kingston during the World Cup.
The PCB has kept May 15 as the final date for applicants to send in their CVs and according to a senior official they have already received around seven applications from England, West Indies and Australia.
Interestingly Whatmore has not applied for the position as yet but Zakir Khan, the Director of Cricket Operations confirmed the Board was in talks with him.
"It really does not matter when he applies. First we have to know if he is interested in accepting our offer," Zakir said.
Zakir said nothing was final with Whatmore as yet and initial talks had been held.
"There is nothing wrong with talking to someone. He is a highly qualified coach and we are interested in him," he added.
Zakir declined to say who were the other coaches who had applied for the position through proper channels.
However former Test captains, Javed Miandad and Rashid Latif expressed their amazement over the Board's policy.
"It is strange. They admit to negotiating with a person whose interest in the position is obvious from the fact that he has not applied as yet," Miandad said.
Rashid said the Board had already chosen the wrong way to hire a new coach by advertising the position.
"And everybody knows and even Whatmore has said he is more interested in becoming the Indian team coach. Is Pakistan so bare of good coaches that we have to go after a person who is not even interested," Rashid said.
He also said by admitting to negotiating with Whatmore the Board would definitely have demoralised the people who had applied for the position.
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