{"id":9425,"date":"2007-05-10T16:12:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/10\/pakistan-look-to-snap-up-whatmore\/"},"modified":"2007-05-10T16:12:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:12:52","slug":"pakistan-look-to-snap-up-whatmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/10\/pakistan-look-to-snap-up-whatmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan look to snap up Whatmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Bangladesh coach tipped to take Pakistan job<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"272\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/DavWhatmore.jpg\"\/>PAKISTAN cricket officials are in talks with Bangladesh coach Dav Whatmore over their vacant coaching role.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Sri Lankan will end his spell in charge of test minnows Bangladesh after their current series against India and is hotly tipped to take the reigns at Pakistan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Nasim Ashraf, the PCB chairman, told reporters in Islamabad that they had been in contact with Whatmore for the post but that nothing had been finalised. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The PCB is in contact with Whatmore. Our negotiations are continuing and whenever something is finalised, it will promptly be made public,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Whatmore guided Bangladesh to stunning wins over India and South Africa during their World Cup campaign where they qualified for the Super 8 Phase. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ashraf told reporters Whatmore had talked to officials in Pakistan and expressed an interest in the post made vacant after the sudden death of Bob Woolmer. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But speaking to the BBC before the India series, Whatmore distanced himself from the reports saying he had \u201cnot been formally approached by the Pakistan Cricket Board\u201d. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cSomebody spoke to me on their behalf during the World Cup asking for my contact details but I have not heard from them since,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Former India coach John Wright and ex-Pakistan Test bowler Aaqib Javed have also been linked with the vacant post. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh coach tipped to take Pakistan job PAKISTAN cricket officials are in talks with Bangladesh coach Dav Whatmore over their vacant coaching role. &#13; The Sri Lankan will end his spell in charge of test minnows Bangladesh after their current series against India and is hotly tipped to take the reigns at Pakistan. &#13; Nasim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}