Akram keen to coach - but probably not in Pakistan

Wasim Akram: 'We cricketers feel more comfortable with foreign coaches' © AFP

Wasim Akram has said that he is keen to get into coaching - but probably not in Pakistan.

"There are too many failings in cricket systems in the subcontinent," he told the PPI news agency. "We cricketers feel more comfortable with foreign coaches. We feel they don't have any personal agendas against us and will be neutral. We feel we can trust them. That's what I felt as a cricketer."

Anyway, he said, the Pakistan board has not approached him. "Coaching is a very organised thing, and I am not. I do commentary and leave; that's better. But I would like to help children, under-16 and under-17.

"In Pakistan," he added, "if you have to become a cricketer you have to be a politician first."