Mickey Arthur: Derbyshire cricket chief juggles Pakistan and county roles

Instead, he will work with the national team as a consultant, while working full-time at Derbyshire.

"Derbyshire has become very close to me," Arthur said.

"This is a project we are far from competitive with. It's a four year project and I really want to make it one success."

The former Australia and Sri Lanka manager has signed a contract extension, which runs until the end of the 2025 season, before Pakistan make their approach.

In his debut campaign at the Incora County Ground, Arthur guided Derbyshire to a fifth-place finish in the division two of the departmental championship last season.

They also achieved a club record with nine victories in the phase of groups of the T20 Blast, before exiting the competition against Somerset in the quarter-finals.

Arthur said the The addition of Pakistan hitter Haider Ali and the signing of Matt Lamb from Warwickshire and pace setter Zak Chappell from Nottinghamshire will make Derbyshire "much stronger".

"One of the reasons we signed players of this ilk is to bring this kind of uncompromisingness and advantage to the team, because we dominated many games last season, but we couldn't cross the line," Arthur told the BBC. "high goals" would be set this season.

"Realistically speaking, promotion is one of them", he said.< /p>

"We made progress last year in improving the four day cricket and now it's about turning draws into wins and then promotion is realistically possible."