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Waqar Younis will regroup with the Pakistan squad forward of the Test sequence towards South Africa.© AFP
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday mentioned that the bowling coach Waqar Younis will return to Pakistan after the primary Test towards New Zealand. “Bowling coach Waqar Younis will return to Pakistan after the first Test against New Zealand to meet his family, whom he has not met since June,” PCB mentioned in a press release. “Waqar Younis had requested the team management to be granted leave so that he can spend additional time with his immediate family, which will be in Lahore before returning to Sydney, Australia, on 17 January,” it added.
PCB mentioned that Waqar will rejoin the facet in time for the sequence towards South Africa, which begins with the primary Test in Karachi on January 26.
Pakistan supervisor Mansoor Rana, in a press release, mentioned: “Considering Waqar has not seen his family since June and taking into account that our home series against South Africa, which follows the series against New Zealand, doesn’t finish until 14 February, we took a pragmatic view of his request and have allowed him to return home early so that he can spend additional time with his wife and children.”
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“If he had returned to Lahore with the side after the second Test, he would have only got a week to spend with them. For all of us, families always come first and we have in the past made similar exemptions so that our team members are able to achieve the correct work-life balance,” Rana added.
The first Test between Pakistan and New Zealand will start on December 26, adopted by the second Test which is about to start on January 3.
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