Kirsten resigns as Pakistan's white-ball coach

Gary Kirsten has resigned as the head coach of Pakistan’s ODI and T20I sides with immediate effect. Kirsten, who was appointed by the PCB on a two-year contract in April 2024, lasted barely six months in the role, and has stepped down hardly a week before Pakistan’s ODI series begins in Australia.*The PCB announced that Test coach Jason Gillespie will fill Kirsten’s role on the tour of Australia for the six white-ball games.There had been a rift developing between Pakistan’s newly-appointed coaches, Kirsten and Gillespie, and the PCB since the board decided to strip them of selection powers, with that authority exclusively the preserve of a selection committee they would no longer be a part of. Gillespie had made little effort to conceal his surprise at the events in the build-up to the third Test in Rawalpindi against England, saying he was now just a “match-day analyst”, and that “it wasn’t what I signed up for.”Kirsten did not make a public statement, but was understood to be…