{"id":74198,"date":"2025-05-13T12:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T07:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=74198"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:08:33","slug":"pcb-appoints-mike-hesson-as-head-coach-for-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pcb-appoints-mike-hesson-as-head-coach-for-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB appoints Mike Hesson as head coach for national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-announces-new-dates-for-remaining-matches-of-psl-x\/\">(PCB)<\/a>\u00a0 has appointed former New Zealand Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/former-kiwi-batter-to-coach-pakistan-national-cricket-team\/\">Mike Hesson<\/a> as Head Coach for the National Men&#8217;s White ball cricket team on Tuesday, effective from May 26, 2025, according to a press release from PCB.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hesson had previously served as head coach of various international teams, including New Zealand and Kenya. He is also currently serving as head coach of Islamabad United, who is the defending champions of HBL Pakistan Super League,&#8221; reads the Statement.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi, in his statement, has welcomed Mike Hesson after being named as Head Coach of the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to announce the appointment of former New Zealand cricketer and renowned coach Mike Hesson as the white-ball head coach of the Pakistan men\u2019s team,&#8221; Naqvi said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike brings with him a wealth of international experience and a proven track record of developing competitive sides. We look forward to his expertise and leadership in shaping the future of Pakistan\u2019s white-ball cricket. Welcome to the team, Mike!&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)\u00a0 has appointed former New Zealand Coach Mike Hesson as Head Coach for the National Men&#8217;s White ball cricket team on Tuesday, effective from May 26, 2025, according to a press release from PCB. &#8220;Hesson had previously served as head coach of various international teams, including New Zealand and Kenya. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":74200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28280,28670],"class_list":["post-74198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-mike-hesson","tag-national-head-coach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74204,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74198\/revisions\/74204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}