The former two time World Cup winning captain Abdul Razzaq has been appointed as the coach of the national team by the Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC). Abdul Razzaq will coach the blind cricket team till the Twenty20 World Cup to be played in Indi in November 2016. Razzaq has to first prepare the team for the forthcoming Asia Cup Twenty20 Blind Cricket in May.
Razzaq is currently working as a teacher in special education. He has a Master’s degree in history from the Punjab University. He was given Tamgha-i-Imtiaz by the president of Pakistan in August, 2011. Razzaq also holds the record to hit fastest fifty on 17 balls in the ODI played against Australia in Delhi, India in 1998.
In 2000, Razzaq became the youngest cricketer in the world to take a Test cricket hat trick in a match against Sri Lanka. He has scored three centuries and twenty two fifties in One Day International matches.