Pakistan's cricket team manager Intikhab Alam has confirmed that fitness coach David Dwyer has been replaced by Saboor Ahmad.
Dwyer had joined the Pakistani setup in 2007 under former coach Geoff Lawson.
"Saboor Ahmad will be replacing Dwyer as Pakistan's fitness coach. Saboor has been working very closely with Dwyer and is the fitness coach at Pakistan's National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Lahore," Cricistan.com quoted Alam, as saying.
"Saboor is a home grown talent from Pakistan who is well known by the players and has already been the fitness coach during U-19 tours, Pakistan-A tours and Pakistan Academy tours too."
"He has a lot of experience and has already worked with current and future Pakistan cricketers," he added.
Although Saboor's first official assignment would be the series against South Africa in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), he has already stood in as fitness coach for the national team during the ODI series against England held in Dubai earlier this year.
Alam further said that Dwyer was replaced because he was continuing with the team on a series by series basis.
"Players need continuity when it comes to training, we couldn't continue to appoint Dwyer on a series by series basis. We needed a long term solution," Alam said
