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Former Pakistan captain Younis Khan will serve as a mentor for Afghanistan at the forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The Afghanistan Cricket Board official confirmed the development to Cricbuzz on Wednesday. Younis has previously served as Afghanistan's batting coach for the team in 2022

"ACB has assigned former experienced top order Pakistani player Younis Khan as Mentor for Champions Trophy 2025. He (Younis) will join the team before the event starts in Pakistan," Sayeed Naseem Sadat, the spokesman of ACB, confirmed to Cricbuzz on Wednesday..

In his playing career, Younis scored 10,099 runs in 118 Tests, including a career-best 313. He also became world number one batsman in the ICC rankings. He also led Pakistan to its maiden T20 World Cup triumph in 2009.

He took on several coaching roles after his playing career that includes serving as batting coach of Pakistan team for a short stint.

Younis had worked with Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) while in the recent past he worked as head coach for the Bangla Tigers in the Abu Dhabi T10 League.