LAHORE, May 19: Despite being given assurance by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday to remain as the national coach until next April, Javed Miandad was unsure whether he wanted to continue.
"He will remain our coach that is decided. We lost the home series to India but he has done a good job in rebuilding process," the PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan said after meeting Miandad.
However, the former Test captain and one of the finest batsmen produced by Pakistan was reluctant to continue as the coach. "I am having second thoughts on the issue regarding my position. I have been hurt by the way PCB reacted after just one series defeat against India," he remarked.
Inzamamul Haq was confirmed as captain until the end of the year by the PCB last month. But in Miandad's case, the PCB kept silence, giving rise to speculation that it was planning to sideline him.
Miandad, who was appointed coach for a third term after Pakistan were eliminated in the first round of the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, said that he told the PCB chief that if win and loss were the criteria of the board, no coach in the world could guarantee 100 per cent results.
Talking to reporters, Shaharyar said he explained to Miandad that the PCB had full confidence in him. The chairman said that the board had a two-year contract with Miandad and there were no two opinions on the future of the team management and the rumours about the future of Miandad were being spread by some people.
Meanwhile, Shaharyar said that he along with Miandad and PCB chief executive Ramiz Raja would watch the recordings of the Indian series after May 24 in an attempt not to repeat the mistakes made in those matches in the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka later this year.
