Geoff Lawson, Pakistan coach has been discharged, minute after the meeting with the chairman Ejaz Butt to discuss cricket matters.
"Lawson's contract is being terminated and the board has decided to pay him three months' pay as compensation as written in the contract," PCB media manager Raza Rashid Kitclew told Cricdb.
Ejaz Butt, Pakistan Cricket Board newly appointed chairman earlier this year however, proclaimed during his first press-conference, that Pakistan’s national coach Geoff Lawson won’t be staying after his contract ends in April 2009.
Lawson, who joined the Pakistan team in July 2007 after the untimely death of Bob Woolmer during the World Cup in Jamaica and was appointed by the former chairman Nasim Ashraf in 2007 on a two-year contract, but has had a troubled relationship with the Pakistani media and some board officials, and his performance also has been the imprecise one, however under his coaching Pakistan won three one-day-international series but had lost major tours at home to South Africa and away to India, and were also failed to qualify for the final of the Pakistani hosted Asia Cup.
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"Lawson's contract is being terminated and the board has decided to pay him three months' pay as compensation as written in the contract," PCB media manager Raza Rashid Kitclew told Cricdb.
Ejaz Butt, Pakistan Cricket Board newly appointed chairman earlier this year however, proclaimed during his first press-conference, that Pakistan’s national coach Geoff Lawson won’t be staying after his contract ends in April 2009.
Lawson, who joined the Pakistan team in July 2007 after the untimely death of Bob Woolmer during the World Cup in Jamaica and was appointed by the former chairman Nasim Ashraf in 2007 on a two-year contract, but has had a troubled relationship with the Pakistani media and some board officials, and his performance also has been the imprecise one, however under his coaching Pakistan won three one-day-international series but had lost major tours at home to South Africa and away to India, and were also failed to qualify for the final of the Pakistani hosted Asia Cup.
http://www.cricdb.com/archive/international/news/detail.php?nid=1053
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