Ramiz Raja slams Najam Sethi for discriminating between foreign, local coaches
PCB confirmed the appointment of Bradburn as head coach of the national men’s side for a period of two years
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)'s former chairman Ramiz Raja took a dig at current cricket setup head Najam Sethi for discriminating between foreign and local coaches.
In December last year soon after taking charge as the head of PCB for the third time, Sethi stated that local coaches do favours to the players.
"Local coaches are not professional coaches. Superstars in Pakistan can't be coaching players, a foreign coach won't do nepotism and favoritism but our local coaches do that because it's in our culture," he had said.
In reply to his statement, Raja said it is not right to disrespect local coaches.
"It is injustice to not make use of Pakistani coaches. If you don’t want to hire, then at least give respect to them. You can’t say they do politics and are useless," the former cricketer said in his latest interview.
"PCB has selected a head coach [Grant Bradburn], who has no experience anywhere else in the cricket circuit. PCB has handed him our whole team, just because his skin colour is different than ours, so they believe he won’t do any politics. A person with a low-level mindset can think like that," he added.
Earlier this month, PCB confirmed the appointment of Bradburn as head coach of the national men’s side for a period of two years.
Bradburn, who has also worked as the fielding coach of the Pakistan team from 2018 till 2020, will work under the supervision of team director Mickey Arthur.
The PCB also announced that former South Africa cricketer Andrew Puttick has signed a two-year contract as the batting coach, meanwhile, strength and conditioning coach Drikus Saaiman and physiotherapist Cliffe Deacon will continue to work in their roles.
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