Former Pakistan head coach Gary Kirsten has broken his silence since moving out of the Pakistan cricket team set up just six months after being appointed as the white-ball coach.
Kirsten was appointed as Pakistan's white-ball coach in April 2024, the same time when Jason Gillespie became the Test team head coach. However, he resigned from his position within just six months citing different reasons behind his decision.
Eventually, Jason Gillespie also quit his position after being the coach of Pakistan and leading them to an ODI series in Australia. Being unhappy with how the team functioned, Gillespie also quit his position in December 2024.
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Would Want to Go Back Under Right Circumstances - Gary Kisten
Pakistan cricket is going through all sorts of problems at the moment. Seemingly, it is run by the PCB Chief Mohsin Naqvi who is taking all the major decisions by himself. Kirsten has also now spoken against the PCB and recalled his time as a coach with the Pakistan side calling it as "tumultuous".
"It was a tumultuous few months. I realised quite quickly I wasn't going to have much of an influence. Once I was taken off selection and asked to take a team and not be able to shape the team, it became very difficult as a coach then to have any sort of positive influence on the group," Kirsten said on the Wisden Podcast.
He further said that he is willing to go back to Pakistan as coach, but under the right management and under the right circumstances.
"If I got invited back to Pakistan tomorrow, I would go, but I would want to go for the players, and I would want to go under the right circumstances. Cricket teams need to be run by cricket people. When that's not happening and when there's a lot of noise from the outside that's very influential noise, it's very difficult for leaders within the team to walk a journey that you feel like you need to walk in order to take this team to where it needs to go" Kirsten added.
He further said that to function as a team properly, there needs to be an environment where the professional players and the coaching staff can work together to become the best team they can be.
"But they're professional cricketers, and I'm a professional cricket coach. When we get into that environment, there are generally certain things you do to help a team be the best that they can be, and when there's no interference, you go down the road, and if it's a talented group of guys, you're generally going to have success," he concluded.
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