Former England coach Andy Flower has confirmed his involvement in the inaugural Pakistan Super League, and will join the Peshawar Zalmi franchise as their batting coach with the full blessing of the ECB.
Flower said, “I’ve been approached to do some batting coaching for Peshawar, one of the franchises in the new Pakistan Super League. I’m looking forward to doing something different.”
“I’ve chatted with Andrew Strauss about whether that’s okay from an ECB perspective and he says it is on the basis that it’s good for our English coaches to get out and about amongst some of these Twenty20 franchise competitions, to learn what’s happening outside of the domestic game in England, to interact with some of the international coaches and players, and to bring some of that knowledge back into our game in England.”
The draft for the tournament takes place on December 21 and 22, while the event itself takes place in Dubai and Sharjah from February 4 to 23. The three-week duration, Flower added, meant that the ECB were comfortable with him taking leave for the event.
