Mohammad Yousuf appointed Pakistan junior workforce head coach

The Pakistan Cricket Board on Saturday named former captain Mohammad Yousuf as the top coach of the nationwide U-19 workforce forward of the Asia Cup and the World Cup early subsequent yr.

Yousuf’s appointment comes a day after PCB elevated the previous quick bowler Sohail Tanvir as the top of the junior choice committee.

Among its slew of actions taken in current days following Pakistan’s first-round exit from the World Cup in India, the PCB had additionally introduced the appointment of former pacer Wahab Riaz because the chief selector of the nationwide choice committee.

Mohammad Hafeez, who had just lately resigned as one of many members of the technical committee, has not solely been named the director of cricket (males’s workforce) however can also be anticipated to double up because the coach through the workforce’s upcoming excursions of Australia and New Zealand.

Yousuf, who has beforehand served as batting coach of the Pakistan workforce and in addition on the National Cricket Academy in Lahore, is ranked as certainly one of Pakistan’s high batters, with 7,530 Test runs and 9,720 in ODIs in a profession spanning from 1998 to 2010.

“Having had the privilege of working with the senior men’s side, I will bring my coaching experience to the U19 set-up, providing a nurturing environment for the young talents to thrive and make a mark on the international level,” Yousuf stated in a PCB assertion.

Yousuf stated he had agreed to grow to be the junior workforce head coach because it was essential to establish younger expertise and groom and harness them for the senior workforce.