LAHORE
Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal, members of the Pakistan team that won the 2009 T20 World Cup and the 2012 Asia Cup, have been appointed as the fast bowling and spin bowling coaches of the Pakistani cricket team respectively.
The first assignment of both of them will be the Test series in Australia and T20 series in New Zealand.
Omar Gul has previously held the role of bowling coach in the three-match T20 series against Afghanistan.
Apart from this, he has also been the bowling coach of the Afghanistan cricket team in the T20 World Cup last year and the bowling coach of Quetta Gladiators in the PSL.
Umar Gul has taken 163 wickets in 47 Test matches, 179 wickets in 130 One Day Internationals and 85 wickets in 60 T20 Internationals in his brilliant international career which started in 2003.
Former world number One Day International bowler Saeed Ajmal will also start his duties in the tours of Australia and New Zealand.
He started his international career in 2008 and has a total of 35 Tests, 113 ODIs and 64 T20 Internationals in his international career and took 447 wickets.
He has also been the spin bowling coach of Islamabad United in PSL.
