In a serious reshuffle within the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) administration, former cricket administrator Najam Sethi will substitute Rameez Raja because the PCB chief. Pakistan’s main newspaper Dawn reported {that a} 14-member administration committee has been nominated by Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Sethi will head it to run the board’s affairs. Cricket board elections are to be held throughout the subsequent 4 months.
The Pakistan authorities, by means of a notification late on Wednesday night time, eliminated Raja following England’s 3-0 clear sweep within the Test sequence.
The notification, issued by Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, needs to be authorised by the federal cupboard, which is simply a formality.
Wednesday’s developments confirmed hypothesis that Sharif, who’s the PCB’s patron, had determined to nominate Sethi as the brand new chairman of the nation’s cricket physique.
Reacting to the event, Sethi took to Twitter on Wednesday and wrote, “The cricket authorities led by Ramiz Raja @iramizraja is not any extra. 2014 PCB structure restored. The administration committee will work tirelessly to revive top quality cricket. Thousands of cricketers will get employment once more. The famine in cricket will finish.
Cricket rule underneath the management of Rameez Raja @iramizraja Not any extra. 2014 PCB structure restored. The administration committee will work tirelessly to revive top quality cricket. Thousands of cricketers will get employment once more. The famine in cricket will finish.
— Najam Sethi (@najamsethi) December 21, 2022
The 14-member physique contains Shakeel Sheikh (ex-PCB BoG), Gul Zada ​​(ex-PCB BoG), Nauman Butt (ex-PCB BoG), former Test cricketers Haroon Rashid, Shahid Khan Afridi and Shafqat Rana, Sana Mir (ex-PCB BOG) are included. -Pakistan ladies’s staff captain), Ed Sayeed (former PCB director NHPC), Tanveer Ahmed (former chairman Larkana area), Advocate Supreme Court Mustafa Ramde and Chaudhary Arif Sayeed (CEO Service Industries).
The information of the change in PCB set-up got here within the backdrop of Pakistan’s defeat within the Test sequence towards England at residence. The Three Lions accomplished a historic sequence sweep in Pakistan with an eight-wicket win within the third and last Test on Tuesday. It was Pakistan’s first 3–0 defeat in a three-Test sequence on residence soil. Rameez Raja, who was elected to a three-year time period in September final yr, was leaving workplace prematurely. This marks the tip of his second time period with the PCB, after serving because the PCB’s chief government from 2003 to 2004.
Raja turned solely the fourth former worldwide cricketer to move the PCB, after Abdul Hafeez Kardar (1972–1977), Javed Burki (1994–1995) and Ejaz Butt (2008–2011). As a cricketer, he represented his nation in 255 worldwide matches and scored 8,674 runs.
Sethi, 73, had earlier served because the PCB chairman from 2013 to 2014.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
