The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is set to hold a “connection camp” a meeting among the top brass of the board and will decide the future course of actions of Pakistan cricket, sources told Geo News.
The sources also informed Geo News that Pakistan white-ball head coach Gary Kirsten, red-ball head coach Jason Gillespie, senior cricketers, senior board officials and international and domestic directors will attend the meeting presided over by PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi.
The meeting is expected to take place on September 22. The sources said the red-ball and white-ball cricket coaches will hold a separate meeting amongst themselves.
Sources also informed Geo News that ideas will be exchanged regarding replacing captains of all formats of the games. Threr is a possibility that Mohammad Rizwan will replace Babar Azam as Pakistan’s white-ball captain. Red-ball skipper Shan Masood’s captaincy will also be assessed.
The recent developments come after Pakistan’s Test series defeat to Bangladesh at home which saw them drop to eighth position in the latest ICC Test Rankings, their lowest since 1965.
Pakistan will host England for a 3-match Test series, which is a part of the ongoing ICC World Test Championship (WTC). The first of the 3 Tests will begin on October 7 in Multan. The second Test will be played in Karachi, beginning on October 15, and the third red-ball clash is scheduled in Rawalpindi on October 24.
