New PCB chairman to be elected on June 27
The election for the following PCB chairman will probably be held on June 27, with Zaka Ashraf anticipated to make a comeback as head of cricket within the nation.
In a press launch, Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana, the PCB election commissioner and appearing chairman, stated: “The election of the PCB Chair will be held in a fair and transparent manner whilst adopting due process and ensuring completion of all legal formalities… on Tuesday, 27 June, at the PCB headquarters in Lahore. The election schedule will be issued after receiving nominations from the departments/service organisations.”
The PCB’s board will comprise ten members: 4 regional representatives, 4 representatives of companies organisations and the 2 members nominated by the patron/prime minister. All board members, together with the chairman, will probably be appointed for 3 years.
Earlier this week, Ashraf, together with Supreme Court lawyer Mustafa Ramday, joined the board after being nominated by the prime minister. In Pakistan, a major minister appointee normally goes on to grow to be the board chairman.
This follows Najam Sethi, who was heading the interim administration committee that ran the PCB until June 20, withdrawing from the race to grow to be the chairman. The Sethi-led administration committee was given the mandate to revive the 2014 PCB structure and kind the board of governors after Ramiz Raja was eliminated as chairman and the 2019 structure was scrapped.
However, Sethi’s checklist of nominees for the board stirred a authorized complication as 4 areas – Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Rawalpindi – have been named out of the rotation.
In the press launch, Rana rejected Sethi’s nominations and changed them with representatives of Larkana, Dera Murad Jamali, Bahawalpur and Hyderabad. The 4 departments included are National Bank of Pakistan, State Bank of Pakistan, Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited and Sui Southern Gas Company.
It was Sethi who had ended Ashraf’s first stint as PCB chairman in 2014. At that point, the pair was concerned in a authorized battle for the chairmanship, with the place switching fingers a number of instances. Eventually, then-prime minister Nawaz Sharif settled the difficulty by ousting Ashraf and bringing in Sethi.