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JOHANNESBURG, March 8: A chronology of the frequent changes in Pakistan cricket which has seen 10 coaches and six captains in the last five years:
COACHES:
Sept 1998: Javed Miandad takes over from Haroon Rasheed.
April 1999: Miandad resigns after a fall-out with senior players and is replaced by Mushtaq Mohammad for the 1999 World Cup.
Aug 1999: Mushtaq sacked after the World Cup, Wasim Raja is appointed in his place but he too makes way for Richard Pybus for the tour of Australia in November.
Dec 1999: Intikhab Alam takes over for the fourth time after Pybus is axed following Pakistan’s 3-0 rout in a Test series in Australia.
March 2000: Miandad returns in place of Intikhab.
April 2001: Miandad sacked after Pakistan’s tour of New Zealand and is replaced by Pybus.
Sept 2001: Pybus refuses to come to Pakistan in the wake of the Sept 11 terror strikes and Mudassar Nazar takes over.
Sept 2002: Mudassar was summoned home midway through the ICC Champions Trophy and replaced by Pybus.
March 2003: Pybus says he does not want to stay on after Pakistan were knocked out in the first round of the World Cup.
CAPTAINS:
Feb 1998: Aamir Sohail
March 1998: Rashid Latif
April 1999: Wasim Akram
Feb 2000: Saeed Anwar
March 2000: Moin Khan
April 2001: Waqar Younis
April 2003: ?.—AFP
