Jason Gillespie Tenure: Former Australian cricketer Jason Gillespie broke silence on his resignation as test coach of Pakistan, stating that he was humiliated by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on several occasions. Last year, the 50-year-old decided to call off his coaching with Pakistan, just eight months after his tenure being appointed as the test coach.
Jason Gillespie Tenure
In a recent question and answer session on X (formerly known as Twitter), Gillespie revealed that the PCB sacked assistant coach Tim Nielsen without any communication, and this proved to be the final exit.
During his tenure, Pakistan saw the defeat on home soil in the three-match test series against England by 2-1. However, after the loss in the opening game of the series, Gillespie had the tough task of seeing Babar Azam being dropped from the playing XI due to a poor patch. In his tenure, Pakistan didn’t get off to a good start, as they lost to Bangladesh in a two-match test series at home.
Throughout Gillespie’s coaching tenure it was reported that the board and he were never on the same boat about any discussions, and this resulted in the former Australian cricketer resigning from the post.
When a user asked Gillespie,
“Why did you opt out of Pakistan coaching?”
Jason Gillespie On Humiliation By Pakistan Board
The former cricketer candidly replied by putting the allegation of “humiliation” by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Gillespie wrote,
“I was coaching the Pakistan Test side. The PCB sacked our senior assistant coach with ZERO communication with me about it—as head coach, I found this situation completely unacceptable. There were a number of other issues that left me completely humiliated.”
This is not the first time Gillespie has had some fiery talk against PCB; he had earlier also talked about things like that. Earlier he had targeted Chairman Mohsin Naqvi, talking about his absence from a key team-building session.
He said,
“Gary (Kirsten) came up with this great idea of a connection camp. Everyone in the Pakistani cricket team basically shared their experiences in that meeting. I flew in from Australia, Gary flew in from South Africa, and Chairman Mohsin Naqvi dialed in on Zoom.”
“He is based in Lahore, but he did not come, while Gary came in from Africa. We both felt that the chairman could not even drive 20 minutes to come here—that was a bit unusual.”
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