The Afghanistan Cricket Board has appointed England-born Richard Pybus as the brand new head coach for his or her nationwide crew. He can be on the helm throughout codecs and can be a part of the crew forward of the white-ball sequence against Sri Lanka in the UAE subsequent month.
Pybus replaces Jonathan Trott, who departed from the role after spending three years in it on the conclusion of their T20 World Cup marketing campaign.
Pybus’ personal enjoying profession was minimize brief by a spate of accidents – he solely ever performed one List A match, for Suffolk in 1986 – however he discovered success teaching groups around the globe. He was Pakistan’s head coach from 1999 to 2003, which included overseeing their run to the ultimate of the 1999 ODI World Cup. He had a short-lived tenure as the pinnacle coach of Bangladesh in 2013, and in addition spent six years, from 2013 to 2019, working with the West Indies crew: as their director of cricket, a high-performance skilled, and eventually, their head coach.
He additionally had stints with Middlesex in England nation cricket, and Border in addition to the Titans in South Africa’s home leagues.
His previous expertise is perhaps essential to reviving the fortunes of Afghanistan, who suffered a group-stage exit on the ongoing T20 World Cup, after shedding their first two matches to New Zealand and South Africa respectively, in what had been dubbed as this yr’s ‘group of demise’. He will be a part of the crew in March in UAE, the place they may play Sri Lanka in three ODIs and three T20Is between March 13 to 25.
