LAHORE: As expected in wake of news regarding firing of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) employees incessantly percolating through a section of media, the country’s cricket regulatory authority has sacked around 120 of its employees.

As per information gleaned by the scribe from various sources, the sacked employees include four regular workers in addition to another who was given job on special persons quota.

Three women workers namely Shahnaz Hameed, Farrukh Munir and Aneela Saeed working in accounts department for the last 12 to 18 years had been regular PCB employees who have received termination letters with advice to collect their dues on Monday.

A peon Adnan Siddiqui associated with the cricket regulatory authority for the last 14 years on regular basis has also been terminated.

Wasif having been worked as groundsman on special persons’ quota for the last seven years could not escape the axe notwithstanding that he received gold medal from former US president Bill Clinton in New York having won the table tennis event at the 1995 World Special Children Games.

Wasif termination is surprising because the management committee in its last meeting has also decided that the board will allocate five per cent employment quota for special children.

Also, besides marketing director Asif Jamal, Uzma Rathore, appointed by the former chairman Zaka Ashraf, also received termination letter.

The list of 120 sacked employees, also including some groundsmen working in the Quetta region, mostly contains contractual staff members whose contracts as per the sources won’t be extended after March 31.

The PCB instead of adopting the policy of decentralization to help regions become financially sound has opted to control all 14 regions by giving employments in these regions in capacities of coaching, training, groundsmen etc due to which the number of PCB employees have jacked up to a massive figure of 700.

The sources also claimed that most of the sacked employees are low-paid employees while most of the highest paid employees continue with their cushy jobs at the PCB.

In this regard the scribe has also learnt that batting legend Javed Miandad who has recently resigned as PCB director general had also offered the PCB to dispense with his services instead of opting to sack low-paid staff members.