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