DTVHINDI“One step forward, two steps back…” Kevin Pietersen heavily criticizes PCB after Gary Kirsten’s resignation
Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen has slammed the PCB. Rishabh Pant’s behavior was more concerning to me than the umpire’s call: Kevin Pietersen (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images) Gary Kirsten has resigned from the post of head coach of Pakistan cricket team. Kirsten was made the head coach of Pakistan’s white ball team in April 2024, but he resigned from his post within six months. Now Jason Gillespie, who was coaching the team in red ball cricket, has been given the responsibility of head coach. After the departure of Gary Kirsten, there was a lot of criticism from all sides of PCB. Now in this sequence, former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen has slammed the PCB. He described Kirsten’s withdrawal as ‘two steps back’ after ‘one step forward’. Pietersen posted on Twitter, “How can Pakistan cricket miss Gary Kirsten’s return to coaching? One step forward in the last few weeks and two steps back today. Stop doing this. There is too much talent to keep doing this kind of work.” How can Pakistan Cricket lose Gary Kirsten’s with his resume in coaching? One step forward the last few weeks and two steps back today! Stop doing it to yourselves. Too much talent to keep doing this kind of stuff! — Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) October 28, 2024 Pakistan team will tour Australia in November Let us tell you that recently Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed Mohammad Rizwan as the captain of the white ball team. And Gary Kirsten’s resignation comes just days after he became captain. It is being told that Kirsten was not happy with many decisions of PCB and for this reason he tendered his resignation. Talking about Pakistan team, they are touring Australia for the white ball series in November. Where the Pakistan team will play an ODI series of three matches and a T20 series of the same number of matches. The 50-over series will be contested on 4, 8 and 10 November in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. After the ODI series, both the teams will play T20 matches in Brisbane, Sydney and Hobart on 14, 16 and 18 November respectively.
Gary Kirsten’s report forced Babar Azam to leave the captaincy of Pakistan team, read big news
On October 1, Babar Azam resigned from the limited overs captaincy of Pakistan. Babar Azam and Gary Kirsten (Image Credit- Twitter Veteran batsman Babar Azam has recently resigned from the limited overs captaincy of Pakistan cricket team. It is noteworthy that before the start of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had once again handed over the captaincy to Babar, who had resigned after Pakistan’s poor performance in the World Cup 2023. So under the captaincy of Babar, Pakistan could not perform anything special in the T20 World Cup. Babar and company had to bow out of the tournament after losing to a team like USA. After this, recently Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten has submitted a detailed report to the PCB, in which detailed information has been given about the reasons for Pakistan’s T20 World Cup defeat. After this report filed by Kirsten, Babar Azam was forced to resign from the captaincy. Besides, a source closely associated with the Pakistan Cricket Board has also given a big statement regarding this. Source gave a big statement Let us tell you that after Babar Azam’s resignation from the limited overs format, a source in the PCB quoted India Today as saying – Babar Azam was not happy with the comments and recommendations of Kirsten and even the assistant coach, Azhar Mahmood and he Felt that only he was being blamed for the disappointing performance. After parts of Kirsten’s report became public, he indicated to the cricket board that he had no interest in continuing as captain. Also, for your information, let us tell you that PCB, under the chairmanship of Mohsin Naqvi, has given the responsibility of finding a new coach for the limited overs format of Pakistan cricket team to Gary Kirsten and his supporting team. It will be worth watching that who is going to take charge of Pakistan cricket team now?
