Nearly 30 years later, he relocated full-time when he joined the staff of the ICC's Global Cricket Academy in Dubai Sports City. He played in the first match of any note here, when a matting wicket was laid down at a football pitch in Sharjah in 1975 for a game involving his Pakistan International Airlines team. No-one else is able to boast such a luminous CV as the former Pakistan captain and coach, as well as such an intimate knowledge of the machinations of the game in this country. It resembled a batsman shaping up to boom a drive through extra-cover for four, but mistiming it, and skewing an inside-edge down to fine leg for a single instead. As such, the Emirates Cricket Board's (ECB) announcement of Mudassar Nazar as the No 1 choice to be their new head coach this week was a little bit out.
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