Zaka Ashraf is about to grow to be the brand new PCB chief after being nominated by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for PCB’s board of governors.

Zaka Ashraf to Exchange Najam Sethi as New PCB Chief

In a notification issued by the Prime Minister’s Workplace as we speak, the premier nominated two names, apart from Sethi’s, for PCB’s Board of Governors.

Ashraf’s first held the Chairman place in October 2011 until former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif dissolved the PCB governing physique in February 2014.

As per a report, “The prime minister has seen and, in his capability as patron of the Pakistan Cricket Board and by way of Article 1011)(d) of the PCB’s Structure 2014, is happy to appoint the next for appointment as Members on Board of Governors of PCB — Muhammad Zaka Ashraf and Mustafa Ramday,”

In keeping with the identical report, the 2 nominations would full the 10-member BoG with the remaining eight members of the physique virtually determined — 4 representatives every from areas and departments.

The physique will vote for the election of the PCB’s new chairman and put an finish to the tenure of the board’s interim Handle­ment Committee, which took cost in December final 12 months after the ouster of former chief Ramiz Raja to revoke the 2019 structure of the board and substitute it with the 2014 constitution.

Till late on Monday evening, Sethi was touted to be the PM’s choose, earlier than the 75-year-old introduced his withdrawal from the combo.

“I don’t wish to be a bone of rivalry between Asif Zardari and Shehbaz Sharif. Such instability and uncertainty are usually not good for PCB. Beneath the circumstances, I’m not a candidate for the Chairmanship of PCB. Good luck to all stakeholders,” Najam Sethi wrote in his Tweet on June 20.

Notably, Ashraf and Sethi had been concerned in a protracted authorized battle in the course of the former’s reign as chairman in 2013. Each executives shared the publish between 2013 and 2014 until Nawaz Sharif’s choice to terminate the PCB physique led by Ashraf.

Sethi was initially given 120 days to run the cricketing enterprise in Pakistan. His fundamental activity was to deliver again the 2014 structure and kind the board of governors and chairman. Sethi not too long ago confronted plenty of criticism for his lack of capacity to take sturdy choices relating to the internet hosting of the 2023 Asia Cup and Pakistan’s involvement within the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 in India.