The Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed the appointment of Grant Bradburn as head coach of the Men in Green for the period of two years on Saturday.

Bradburn served as the head coach during the recently concluded home series against New Zealand.

“It is a great honour for me to work with the highly talented and skillful side like Pakistan as a head coach,” Bradburn was quoted as saying by the PCB.

“We have been working hard on our raising our game and are eager to showcase our growing skills. Mickey Arthur and I are excited to support, challenge and develop our players.”

PCB management committee chairman Najam Sethi congratulated Bradburn saying that players could benefit from his experience and dominate cricket in all three formats.

“I am delighted to name Grant Bradburn as the head coach of our men’s side. Bradburn joins the side with plethora of coaching experience,” he said. “After having worked with our men’s side before and at the National Cricket Academy, he understands our culture and philosophy of cricket well and is an ideal candidate to take our team forward.”

Bradburn has also worked as the fielding coach of the Pakistan team from 2018 till 2020 before joining the National Cricket Academy to concentrate on the coaches development.