LAHORE: Former Pakistan fast bowler Aqib Javed Wednesday resigned from UAE coaching in order to serve as a director of Pakistan Super League franchise Lahore Qalanders.
Aqib, who was conserved as string candidate for Pakistan coaching, has quit from the coaching of UAE team to fill up the vacant position as a director of Lahore Qalander.
“I have decided to resign from the UAE job and go back to Pakistan,” Javed told ESPNcricinfo. “I think I have done great with the team and now I don’t see anything left for me to do. They have the ODI status, played cricket at the highest level against big teams, and now it’s just a repetition and I don’t want to do it again. In an Associate country like UAE, you do at a certain level and when you achieve every goal, then you start losing interest and there is no motivation left. So I decided to move on and try something different.”
Former fast bowler had started coaching of UAE team in 2012 while he expressed his reservations on the selection committee that the committee is already trying to bring a foreigner coach for the national team, AqibJaveed said.
Lahore Qalandars executive Atif Rana confirmed the franchise has been in touch with Javed for a comprehensive role, which will be formalized later this week. “The deal hasn’t been done yet,” Rana told ESPNcricinfo. “We have been in touch with Aaqib for long and on Saturday we will be putting up his case in our board and will take a final call. It is partly true that we are interested to rope him in but there are a lot of discussions left before we formally announce.”
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