"PCB strongly refutes the story. As announced previously, Jason Gillespie will continue to coach the Pakistan side for the two red-ball matches against South Africa," the Pakistan Cricket Board wrote in X post after the rumours of Aaqib Javed replacing Gillespie surfaced online on Sunday.
Jason Gillespie, the former Aussie fast bowler, alluded to the lack of promotions through the ODI series, which ended up being a historic one for Pakistan. Pakistan beat Australia 2-1 in the three-match ODI series, a first in 22 years for the visitors in Australia.
Pakistan have lost the first Test against England in Multan by an innings and 47 runs. Not many saw this coming especially after England amassed 823 runs in their first innings with Harry Brook and Joe Root smashing 317 and 262 runs respectively.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) recently denied No Objection Certificates (NOCs) to their senior players like Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi to feature in the Global T20 Canada T20 competition.
Pakistan are going to play their next T20I series against Ireland and will then tour England for a four-match T20I series right before the start of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in the USA and the Caribbean.
Gillespie's name was being floated as a potential replacement for Darren Lehmann when the latter stood down as coach in the wake of the 2018 ball-tampering scandal.
The Kohli-led Indian contingent will begin their title defence of the Border Gavaskar Trophy at Adelaide from December 17, which will be a Day-Night affair.
While representing India in 14 Tests, 64 ODIs and 50 T20Is, Bumrah has scalped over 200 international wickets.
In Smith's truancy, Tim Paine was assigned the captaincy role in the traditional format while Aaron Finch led the limited-overs side.
Gillespie is one of South Australia's most prolific bowlers with 54 Sheffield Shield matches and 71 Tests to his name.
Jason Gillespie rated Indian batting legend Tendulkar alongside West Indies' Lara as the toughest batsman to dismiss in his career.
On this very day, 14 years ago, Australia's Jason Gillespie had carved a sensational and an unbeaten 201 against Bangladesh in Chittagong, the only 100-plus knock by a nightwatchman in the history of the sport
Former Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie believes India's Test specialists Cheteshwar Puajra and Ishant Sharma have left an indelible impression on him with their work ethic during their county stints.
Jason Gillespie still holds the record of the highest individual score (201) as a night-watchman in Test cricket.
Former Australian pacer Jason Gillespie backed Jofra Archer, saying that the pacer can turn out to be 'absolutely anything'.
Gillespie, who is also the English county club Sussex's head coach took to Twitter and posted a series of tweets revealing that he is in isolation for the next two weeks after returning to home.
Former Australian pacer Jason Gillespie praised one of India's fast bowler after his impressive performance against New Zealand.
Ishant Sharma grabbed his 11th five-wicket haul in Test cricket on Sunday as he returned with figures of 5/68 against New Zealand in the first innings.
Jason Gillespie, who took over 400 international wickets, and Jason Kerr, will join Lions' head coach Richard's Dawson's to prepare for three matches.
Jason Gillespie will continue on his position as the head coach of Sussex until 2022 after signing an extension with the English County side.
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