After former coach Gillespie’s accusations regarding unpaid dues, PCB refutes claims
Days after former Pakistan red-ball coach Jason Gillespie claimed that he is still waiting for some remuneration from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCA) for his role as Pakistan’s red-ball coach, the PCA has refuted the claims. The former Australian pacer, along with South African Gary Kirsten, were appointed as red-ball and white-ball coaches respectively by PCB last year and Gillespie resigned from his position days before the South Africa Tour in December. It has come days months after Kirsten too had resigned from his role.
“The Pakistan Cricket Board refutes claims made by a former head coach on the non-payment of his dues. The PCB spokesman states that the former head coach abruptly left his position without giving a four-month notice period, which was a clear breach of the contractual terms. The coaching contract explicitly mentioned a notice period applicable to both parties, and the coach was fully aware of it,” the statement by PCB released on Monday read.
Gillespie had earlier shared about some of his dues being not paid by the PCB. The former Australian international had given an interview to a Pakistani daily last week and posted about the issue on his Instagram on Sunday. “Yeah, without going into the details, obviously still waiting on some remuneration from work that has been done. So just navigate through that in due course. Admittedly, that has been a little bit disappointing but look, hopefully that can get sorted sooner rather than later. So yeah, hopefully, that gets sorted as soon as possible,” Gillespie posted on his Instagram.
Earlier in December, Gillespie had talked about the reasons, which led to him resigning. With PCB sacking high-performance coach Tim Nielsen, Gillespie counted the decision as one of the factors in his resignation.
“I was completely and utterly blindsided by a decision to not have a high-performance coach. 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 really want me to do this job or not’. I felt I was basically hitting catches and that was about it on the morning of a game. You want to be able to have clear communication with all stakeholders, with selectors, for instance, knowing what the team is as head coach well before the game, or before at least the day before the game.” Gillespie had told ABC Sport in December.
