The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) formally started looking for a new head coach on Saturday, April 19, with a formal advertisement on its website.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) formally started looking for a new head coach on Saturday, with a formal advertisement on its website.

As per the details, the cricket board is looking for an experienced Level III coach with a minimum of ten years of coaching national or domestic cricket teams.

This development follows reports that ex-interim coach Aqib Javed is no longer keen on remaining head coach. Rather, Javed is said to be interested in the role of Director of the High-Performance Centre, which fell vacant after Nadeem Khan resigned. The PCB has also posted this role, suggesting there could be restructuring of the coaching department.

Javed was made interim white cricket head coach in November 2024, succeeding Gary Kirsten. In the next month, he also became all-format coach after Jason Gillespie resigned as Test format head coach over differences with the board. His term was to expire after the 2025 Champions Trophy. Pakistan were knocked out in the first round of the international tournament, but Javed was offered an extension of his contract as head coach for the next tour of New Zealand. The "Men in Green" lost the five-match T20I series 4-1 before being thrashed in the next ODI match last month.

Nevertheless, the PCB has now chosen to decline Javed a further contract extension. Yet he may continue in Pakistan cricket if he is made director of the High-Performance Centre.

Sources indicate that the PCB is struggling to find quality candidates from former internationals and is hence inclined towards the appointment of a foreign coach. In contrast to past years, the board will not be bringing in high-profile international names but will instead seek to find the right person for the team at the moment.