Pakistan head coach and chief selector, Misbah-ul-Haq has got the support from the cricket authorities despite his recent failure as a coach in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Misbah, who was given special permission by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to be the head coach of the Islamabad United, saw his team out of the league before the knockout stage for the first time since PSL’s inaugural season in 2016.
Islamabad who are the two times champions failed to reach to the top four in the points table with just seven points from 10 matches, bashed at Misbah-ul-Haq for the poor performance. But a senior official of the board said that they are backing and supporting Misbah as well.
“Since he took over as head coach we have seen steady progress in the national team’s performances in Tests and T20 cricket,” CEO Wasim Khan told the media.
“We have full confidence in Misbah even now but as is our policy we will sit down and review his one-year performance after the World T20 in Australia in October,” Khan said. “We will do a complete postmortem of his one-year progress and then reach a conclusion.”
“We have confidence in him and that is we allowed him to coach the Islamabad franchise as we wanted him to gain some experience as well in this position. You must keep in mind while he is coach of the Pakistan team full-time he only joined the Islamabad franchise few days before the PSL. We wanted it to be a learning experience for him as head coach,” he further added.
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Misbah-ul-Haq took over the responsibility as head coach cum chief selector last September after the PCB released foreign coach, Mickey Arthur and his support staff after a poor show in the World Cup. Under his guidance, Pakistan won two out of five Tests at home against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh but failed to do well in Australia.
“It is up to him what his planning is for the team but definitely I am sure he and the other selectors would take into consideration performance of players in the PSL when they sit down to finalise teams for the Asia Cup and World T20,” he again shared.
