Former Pakistan head coach Jason Gillespie has accused the Pakistan Cricket Board of not giving him the remuneration for his role with the men's cricket team. Gillespie who took over as the red-ball coach in April 2024 left the role in December 2024 following their dismal show at home, especially the series against Bangladesh.
“Yes, without going into details. I'm still waiting on some remuneration from work that's being done. So I'll just navigate through that in due course”, Gillespie said in an interview with PakPassion.
“Admittedly, that's been a little bit disappointing, but hopefully that can get sorted sooner rather than later. But yes, we'll learn. But yeah, as I said, hopefully that'll get sorted as soon as possible,” he added.
Under the leadership of Shan Masood, Pakistan missed out on making it to the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 final by a huge margin. Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah were dropped/rested from the Test series against England at home when the former Australian pacer was head coach.
Gillespie felt blindsided
Gillespie had earlier spoken about the challenges he faced when he was given the top job. He claimed he was blindsided often.
"There were certainly challenges. I went into the job eyes wide open, I want to make that really clear. I knew that, you know, Pakistan had cycled through a number of coaches in a pretty short space of time," Gillespie told ABC Sport. "The straw that broke the camel's back, I suppose, was, as a head coach, you like to have clear communication with your employer. I was completely and utterly blindsided by a decision to not have a high-performance coach."
Gillespie had said that the high-performance coach Tim Nielsen was let go without any communication with him.
"Tim Nielsen was told that his services were no longer required and I had absolutely zero communication from anyone about that," Gillespie said. "And I just thought after a number of other things that had gone on in the previous few months, that was probably the moment where I thought, 'Well, I'm not really sure if they actually want me to do this job or not.'"
Pakistan continue to struggle
In his absence, Aqib Javed was named the interim head coach on South Africa tour. Under Javed, Pakistan lost the Test series in South Africa. However, they faced an early exit in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 despite being co-hosts. Since then, Babar and Mohammad Rizwan have been dropped from T20I side. Salman Agha has replaced Rizwan as T20I captain. The team suffered an ODI series whitewash and lost four out of five matches in T20I series on New Zealand tour.