Aaqib Javed joins Pakistan coaching team

Aaqib Javed has been appointed as the limited-overs head coach of the Pakistan men’s national cricket team. The 52-year-old has been appointed to the white-ball coaching role on an interim basis. He will continue this role till the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. 

Aaqib Javed's responsibilities 

Javed will start his interim coaching journey for the Pakistan team after the end of the Australia tour. It means he will serve as the head coach during Pakistan's tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa. While Pakistan will play six white-ball matches in Zimbabwe, they will also play another six limited-overs matches in South Africa before Jason Gillespie takes charge of the Pakistan Test team to play a two-match Test series against South Africa. 

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Before the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Pakistan will also play a two-match home Test series against West Indies and a short ODI tri-series with New Zealand and South Africa. 

Pakistan will host the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in February 2025. 

While he is ready for the interim coaching role, Javed will also continue his role as a senior member of the Pakistan men’s national selection committee.

Aaqib Javed's international career

In his international career between 1988 and 1998, the right-arm fast-medium bowler picked up 54 wickets in 22 Tests and 182 wickets in 163 ODIs.

At the age of 19 years and 81 days, Javed recorded an ODI hat-trick against India in Sharjah during the Wills Trophy final in October 1991. He still holds the record for the youngest player to record an ODI hat-trick. In that same ODI, Javed ended with the bowling figures of 10-1-37-7. While he was the second bowler in ODI history to claim a seven-wicket haul (after the Caribbean Winston Davis in 1983), he recorded then the best bowling figures in ODI history. 

After finishing playing career

Javed was the head coach of the National Cricket Academy in Lahore. He was also the head coach of the Pakistan U19 cricket team during their successful journey in the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2004, where they won their first U19 WC trophy. 

While Javed worked for the development of the Afghanistan national cricket team, he also worked as the bowling coach for the Pakistan men’s national cricket team. He was also the bowling and head coach of the United Arab Emirates men’s team.  

For the Pakistan Super League team Lahore Qalandars, Javed was involved as the director of cricket operations, bowling consultant, and head coach. 

For a short period, Javed also worked this year with the Sri Lankan men’s national cricket team as the fast bowling coach.