Sweeping changes in PCB's functioning

By Rizwan Ehsan Ali

ISLAMABAD, JULY 2. Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, Lt. Gen. Tauqir Zia dissolved the advisory council on Sunday and announced five committees to run the board professionally on the lines of International Cricket Council.

The chairman has ordered complete reorganisation of the cricket board and its functioning, said media manager Khalid Butt from Lahore.

Former Test cricketers Javed Miandad, Ramiz Raja and Waqar Hasan, along with the manager of the Pakistan team to England, Yawar Saeed are the members of the advisory council.

The five new committees are - finance and marketing, development, selection, review and the management committee. All will report directly to the PCB chairman. Muhammad Naeem, till now PCB's financial advisor, has been made treasurer to oversee the finance department.

The finance and marketing committee will be headed by the PCB chairman and will consist of the PCB director, treasurer, marketing consultant and legal advisor.

It's task will be to consider and review on a regular basis the financial results, budget, sponsorship and promotion deals made to PCB.

The development committee will be headed by Ramiz Raja and will look after infrastructure development, academies, nurseries, coaching centres, grass-root level cricket and the national coaching council, Khalid said.

The management committee which will deal with domestic cricket, national umpiring council, rules and discipline and will be headed by Javed Miandad with Iqbal Qasim as its vice-chairman.

The new selection committee will be headed by an honorary chairman who will be aided by paid selectors whose names will be announced in due course of time. Till such time, however, the present committee members will continue to function.

A review committee to consider matters regarding betting, gambling and match-fixing will be headed by a retired judge of the high-court (to be named later), the PCB chief investigator with Israr Ahmad and Asif Shah as the other members.

In addition, the PCB chairman has also formed a committee to be headed by the legal advisor to review PCB's constitution and elections of associations so as to be in line with new national administrative structure.

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