PCB offered me Pakistan's head coach job: Azhar Mahmood

Former Pakistani cricketer Azhar Mahmood clears the rumours of refusal for Pakistan's head coach position for the Afghanistan and New Zealand series. He reinstated that the refusal didn't relay from his side rather he couldn't have committed to the national side while still being a part of the Surrey County Cricket Club.

Azhar, while talking to a cricket website, said that it was him who couldn't take the offer for both series; however, he was ready to take the job for one series against Afghanistan after getting approval from his county club's management.

"For the Afghanistan series, there were rumours that I refused it [headcoach position], but I didn't refuse it - because they [PCB] asked me for those two series, and they called me and asked me we would like you to have these two series as head coach of Pakistan cricket team, so I said my commitment is with Surrey so let me find out with Surrey first. I am not sure they will allow me to do the New Zealand job - the New Zealand series - but you know I can do this series. So they [PCB] said okay, you have to do one series, that's fine. We need someone, and then in the end, they went with someone else, which is absolutely fine, you know, like they found someone to do both the series," Azhar said.

Azhar thinks that PCB might not have extensive plans for coaching of any sort, and they all are rather short-term based - changing from series to series.

"There were no long-term plans; they were short-term- series by series thing. For me, because I have got my own commitments, and as you know, I am still with Surrey, and season has already started," he concluded.