PCB rules out separate Test coach, Hesson keeps red-ball duties
The board has told the Test squad that Hesson will stay in charge until the end of the World Test Championship, with his future settled after the 2027 World Cup.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided not to appoint a separate head coach for the Test team, leaving Mike Hesson in charge of red-ball cricket as well as the white-ball formats. Aaj News reported that Hesson, the current head coach, will carry the Test duties until the end of the World Test Championship.
The report, which cited sources in the board, said the decision had been communicated to the players in the Test squad so that no ambiguity remained within the team over who was running the coaching set-up.
Those sources said Hesson had himself expressed willingness to continue as Test coach. He will guide Pakistan in the home Test series against New Zealand next year, the report said.
Hesson also has a central role in the selection of the Test squad and in major changes made to the team, according to the same account.
His coaching contract with the board runs to 2027, the sources said. A final decision on his future will be taken after the 2027 World Cup, and until then the board is following a policy of improving the team's performance in all three formats under his supervision.
The effect is that Pakistan will go through the remainder of the World Test Championship without a coach appointed specifically for the Test side, with Hesson's brief covering Tests, one-day internationals and Twenty20s.
The report did not give dates for the New Zealand series, describing it only as a home series next year.
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