Pakistan authorities introduced a 10-member PCB management committee and appointed Zaka Ashraf as its chairman on Thursday, July 6. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif nominated Ashraf to guide a newly-formed committee for the following 4 months, which additionally consists of former cricketer Zaheer Abbas.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is in turmoil since Najam Sethi’s stunning withdrawal from the election of PCB chairman final month. Upon Sethi’s resignation, Zaka Ashraf emerged as the favourite to change into the brand new chief of Pakistan cricket however the elections for the brand new chairman have been postponed indefinitely upon sturdy protest from former management committee members.
The new management committee consists of Kalim Ullah Khan, Ashafaq Akhtar, Mussadiq Islam, Azmat Parvez, Zaheer Abbas, Khurram Soomro, Khawaja Nadeem, Mustafa Ramday, and Zulfiqar Malik and can oversee all of the operations associated to Pakistan cricket. PCB additionally made a giant change within the chief election commissioner publish with Mahmood Iqbal changing Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana.
PCB election was scheduled to happen on June 27 however many former management committee members filed petitions in numerous excessive courts, difficult Ashraf’s potential choice for the chairman publish. The excessive courtroom has now postponed the elections for an indefinite time.
A brand new board of governors, who votes for a brand new PCB chairman, can have two members nominated by the Prime Minister, who additionally serves as patron of PCB. Ashraf was nominated by Shehbaz Sharif and it was sufficient to earn him the PCB chairman publish.
A authorized battle between former members and a brand new board of governors began after Najam Sethi’s determination to not run for the PCB chairman election. Former committee members, who have been half of Sethi’s interim setup, have been changed by new members from smaller cities by Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana.
The new management committee, headed by Ashraf, will flip its give attention to internet hosting the upcoming Asia Cup 2023 and can search ultimate approval from the federal government for sending its group for the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 in India.
