Pakistan on Thursday selected former middle-order batsman Ijaz Ahmed as supporter coach for the national team's future tour to Zimbabwe in a bid to help the batsmen.
"On ask for of the team management Ahmed is selected assistant coach. He will travel with the Pakistan team on the tour to Zimbabwe," said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in a statement.
Pakistan play a practice game on August 28, before attractive the field for a Test, three one-day internationals and two Twenty20 in Zimbabwe.
The 42-year-old Ahmed has supposedly been hired to iron out problems in the batting line-up, the team's main area of anxiety in recent years.
Ahmed, who carved a name as an violent middle-order batsman, represent Pakistan in 60 Tests and 251 one-day internationals, but was locked up two years ago for issuing false cheques to the tune of 11 million rupees ($126,714 by the current exchange rate).
Ahmed is also on the staff of Pakistan's national cricket conservatory in Lahore.
Pakistan's head coach is former paceman Waqar Younis, while Misbah-ul-Haq has been selected captain for all three forms on the tour of Zimbabwe.
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