The Pakistan Cricket Board will consult the national team players while appointing a new foreign coach for the senior team.The PCB has said it attached great importance to the feedback from the players and PCB chairman Naseem Ashraf would hold a meeting with them to discuss the appointment of a new coach after the shortlisted candidates — Australians Dav Whatmore, Geoff Lawson and Richard Done — have been interviewed.Lawson and Done have already been interviewed by Board officials while Whatmore is due in Lahore later this week.“The new coach has to work with the players and what they want is very important to us. We are not expecting the new coach to produce overnight results, we know he will take time. But unless the players are comfortable with him, no results will come at all,” Ashraf said.He pointed out that the players had enjoyed a very good rapport with former coach Bob Woolmer who died during the World Cup.“They got along well with Woolmer who had good man management skills. That is what we are also looking for in the new coach apart from other advantages.”Ashraf said some of the senior players had been around for a while now and could give useful feedback on what qualities were required from a foreign coach. “The players feedback will count a lot.”Done and Lawson were taken to Abbotabad to meet with the players who are attending a training camp in the summer hill resort in preparation for next month’s ODIs against Scotland and India in Glasgow.
