The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday made it clear that it would not be renewing the contract of national team coach, Geoff Lawson when it expires next year.
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday made it clear that it would not be renewing the contract of national team coach, Geoff Lawson when it expires next year.
PCB Chairman, Ejaz Butt in his first press conference in Lahore, said that he considered Lawson as a useless coach but could not sack him due to financial problems.
"We will suffer huge financial losses if we sack him. We have to pay him compensation of three months salary if we remove him now and I don't see what purpose that would serve now as we are playing little international cricket," Butt said.
"But one thing is clear he will no longer be the coach of the team when his two-year contract expires in June or July next year," he added.
Since taking charge earlier this month, Butt made no hesitation in expressing his displeasure over Lawson who was brought in as coach of the Pakistan team last year in July after the death of Bob Woolmer.
Lawson, who has had a troubled relationship with the PCB officials and the media, was being paid USD 30,000 a month plus other fringe benefits and Butt said, in current financial scenario when the Board was earning nothing and spending a lot, he could not afford to sack the former Australian pacer.
Butt also made it clear he has pin pointed a number of former players who were capable of doing a very good job as coach of the national team.
He also reposed confidence in captain, Shoaib Malik insisting that his performance would be reviewed on merit and without any bias.
"I don't believe in this senior and junior stuff if some one is delivering for Pakistan I am satisfied," he said.
Lawson has said he has no intentions to quit his position with the Pakistan team and would complete his two-year tenure.
While Butt has met Malik and the selectors, he has not bothered to meet Lawson as yet.
Pakistan has a history of sacking its captains and coaches at the slightest pretext and after Imran Khan only Inzamam-ul-Haq and Woolmer enjoyed the longest tenures as captain and coach between 2003 and 2007.
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