Najam Sethi has successfully stepped down as head of the PCB, after pulling himself out of the race to turn out to be the following board chairman. Sethi was heading an interim administration committee that had been operating the board since final December however whose tenure was on account of finish on June 21.

"I don't want to be a bone of contention between Asif Zardari and Shehbaz Sharif," Sethi tweeted. "Such instability and uncertainty is not good for PCB. Under the circumstances I am not a candidate for Chairmanship of PCB. Good luck to all stakeholders."

Sethi's tweet was referencing the political horsetrading over the chairman's seat. Shehbaz Sharif is the present Prime Minister of Pakistan and the PCB patron. Asif Ali Zardari, a former Pakistan president with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), is a outstanding coalition accomplice within the present authorities and Ashraf is considered his get together's man for the submit.

Traditionally in Pakistan cricket, it's the PM's appointment to the PCB board of governors who normally turns into the board chairman. Ordinarily, the PCB chairman could be a choose of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) get together. But over the past couple of weeks, the PPP has insisted that as they're those answerable for Pakistan sports activities, via the ministry for inter-provincial coordination (IPC) it maintained the correct to appoint a candidate of their selecting.

Although the prime minister is but to appoint two names, ESPNcricinfo understands that Ashraf, together with the famend Supreme Court lawyer Mustafa Ramday, are the 2 who can be nominated. Both can be added to PCB's 10-member board of governors (BoG) with one of many PM's direct nominees prone to be elected as PCB chairman for 3 years. Ashraf is the overwhelming favorite to be elected, with the election course of normally a formality.

Sethi has been operating the PCB on an interim foundation since Ramiz Raja was eliminated as chairman and the board's 2019 structure was scrapped in December final yr. Sethi's committee was initially given 120 days to carry again the 2014 structure beneath which the PCB was run and reinstate the regional and division construction in home cricket. The committee was additionally given a mandate to type a board of governors and elect a boss.

The 2014 structure additionally requires the PCB to type a board of governors comprising ten members: 4 out of the 16 regional representatives, 4 representatives of providers organisations, and two members immediately nominated by the PCB patron.

Over the final six months, Sethi's administration committee has additionally overseen the hiring of a predominantly abroad teaching workers for Pakistan, with former head coach Mickey Arthur appointed part-time director of cricket.