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| April 25, 2003 | Friday | Safar 22, 1424 |
No one to lose job: PCB chief
LAHORE, April 24: No one will lose their jobs in the wake of reshuffle in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Lt Gen Tauqir Zia, assured after inaugurating the Abdul Qadir Cricket Academy at LCCA Ground on Thursday.
“As the regional and national academies are to start from June this year, therefore, a reshuffle is necessary in the board to appoint most suitable persons on these posts,” the PCB chairman said.
Gen Tauqir said that the entire PCB staff was competent and he was satisfied with their performance.
He denied that Chishty Mujahid quit the PCB after having any confliction with other officials of the board.
Chishty resigned from his post of PCB director some days ago, citing health and family problems as reasons.
The general reiterated that Chishty had informed him four months back that problems in his family were not allowing him to stay away from Karachi for long.
While replying to a question, the chairman said the International Cricket Council (ICC) had advised the PCB to uphold the appeal of pacer Wasim Akram which he filed before the board to lift a ban under which he can not be made as captain of the Pakistan team.
He said that as Wasim was playing county cricket and he was not available to appear before the PCB in this connection, therefore, there was no hurry in this case.
“Let come the bowler back and any further advice from ICC,” he said.
The ban has been imposed by one-man judicial commission of Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum in 2000 which probed the match-fixing charges on some of Pakistan cricketers. Wasim has filed a petition before the board to acquit him.
The PCB chief warned that the new-look Pakistan team have a tough schedule ahead of it but expressed the hope it would show more fighting spirit in the forthcoming competitions, in Sri Lanka and England.
Regarding the women cricket affairs, he said that PCB had taken the charge of women cricket on the order of the court, otherwise it had no interest to interfere in this section.
He said a group of women had got a stay order from the court preventing the trials to be held for the selection of Pakistan team for the IWCC Trophy qualifying round to be held in Holland in July this year.
Earlier, he announced that PCB would provide all kind of assistance to the Abdul Qadir Cricket Academy. He urged that other cricketers who earned a lot of money from cricket should also form the academies like the world famed leg-spinning wizard.
He said that Pakistan needed full time spinners and not the part-timers who were in abundance.
He hoped that Qadir would produced such spinners for Pakistan through his academy.
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