Pakistan coach Aaqib Javed including support staff to be sacked after team's poor show in Champions Trophy 2025

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 hosts Pakistan are on the verge of getting out of the tournament after poor show in the mega event. Pakistan Cricket team is currently facing a lot of criticism as they lost both group-stage matches including the humiliating defeat to India.

Champions Trophy 2025 hosts lost to arch-rivals India by six wickets in Dubai on Sunday, after their 60-run defeat to New Zealand in the Champions Trophy opener in Karachi on February 19.

As per the news agency PTI, Aaqib will be relieved of his duties as interim head coach after the Champions Trophy.

“Obviously there is backlash over the team’s performance in the CT. The Board hasn’t decided as yet on whether the team will have separate head coaches (for red and white ball teams) but one thing is certain the current support staff will be overhauled now after the poor show in the Champions Trophy,” the source told PTI.

"But the way the Board has been changing coaches and selectors since last year, it will be a challenge to find other candidates for these positions,” he said.

Aaqib was appointed as head coach first of the white ball team late last year after the resignation of Gary Kirsten by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohsin Naqvi. He was later asked to take over as interim red-ball coach also for the series in South Africa and against the West Indies at home after Australian Jason Gillispie left.

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After the Champions Trophy Pakistan will tour New Zealand from March 16 to April 5 for five T20 Internationals and three ODIs, the Board has decided to finalise a new permanent coach or coaches.

The source said due to the preparations for the Champions Trophy, the PCB could not focus on the hiring of new permanent coach(es) but now this will take priority.

“The PCB, after the way Kirsten and Gillispie resigned, is not going to get a choice of field when it comes to foreign coaches, so most probably the PCB will look at former players for the job,” the source said.

After losing two league matches against India and New Zealand, Pakistan will now face Bangladesh for their third league match which will take place on February 27 at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi.

With PTI Inputs