Former Pakistan coach and Australian cricketer Jason Gillespie said that the sacking of Tim Nielsen as the high-performance red-ball coach was one of the issues with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), which left him humiliated

In April 2024, the PCB appointed Gillespie as the head coach for the team in Test cricket and former South African cricketer Gary Kirsten was also named as the head coach in white-ball formats.