PCB to honour Misbah, Younis and Afridi at a ceremony in September

E-Paper | April 25, 2026

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) plans to host an award ceremony to honour three former captains of the Pakistan team in September, PCB Chairman Najam Sethi told DawnNews on Tuesday.

"We plan to arrange a special award ceremony for former captains Misbah ul Haq, Younis Khan and Shahid Afridi," said the chairman. "They served Pakistan for a long period and deserve appreciation."

Sethi further said that top players from the team will also be honoured at the ceremony.

"We will honour and appreciate our top players and umpires in the same award ceremony to encourage them," he said.

The board is scheduled to host a farewell ceremony for former chairman Shaharyar Khan on Wednesday.

Khan was elected to serve as chairman in 2014. During his three-year term, Sethi served as the board's executive committee chief.

Last week, the board elected Sethi to serve as its 30th chairman, replacing Khan.

Sethi, who is heading the successful Pakistan Super League, was elected unopposed and will serve a three-year term.

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Anti-Corruption_Pakistani

Aug 15, 2017 02:17pm

It's time that PCB recognise our senior retired players contribution to cricket. This will help motivate younger players, and set an example of 'recognition' that have previously been ignored for political and personal reasons. Good gesture!

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Khan Lala

Aug 15, 2017 02:23pm

The whole nation has been made hostage in the hands of politics and sports!!! When can we get rid of such scenarios...

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A.G. Fancy

Aug 15, 2017 02:39pm

Yunus Khan should be felicitated by a separate award ceremony for all his universal records in the game of cricket. There is a vast difference between his achievement and those of Afridi.

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Sid

Aug 15, 2017 03:00pm

Good initiative by the PCB. All three were great servants of the game and Pakistan, leaving an enviably legacy behind them. Of the three, Afridi, however, could have scaled greater heights than he actually did. In a way, he was often his own worst enemy.

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Azmeen

Aug 15, 2017 03:01pm

A good move.

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A Ali

Aug 15, 2017 03:08pm

why Afridi ?... he made us lose more matches than win, as a player.

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naeem

Aug 15, 2017 03:35pm

After showering million and billions on players, if there left some amount, distribute amongst those who don't have even clean drinking water facility , no shelter on their heads and even don't have a square meal for their poorly dressed children, let alone providing Education to their children.

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Aug 15, 2017 03:37pm

Why Afridi?

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aleem

Aug 15, 2017 03:54pm

Good initiative and long overdue. Well done Mr Sethi.

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Masood Wazir

Aug 15, 2017 04:41pm

We have to honor our heroes and must be treated gracefully irrespective of whether in action or got retired. Their experience and vision can help the young generation. Since Shahid Afridi and Yonus Khan are real legends in real life working without any discrimination for humanity on the streets of Karachi. WE ARE PROUD OF OUR LEGENDS

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ABL

Aug 15, 2017 04:59pm

Just wondering, do we (in Pakistan) have "Hall of Fame" in cricket. Cricket is more than sports in Pakistan. How about having a distinguished location for such a "Hall of Fame in Cricket for Pakistan" and then allow it for public to visit for all times. Surely, we need a good specific quantifiable categories to be developed with consensus for each cricketer to qualify for the Hall. Of course, all three mentioned Misbah, Younis and Afridi will qualify. But there are many from past, who also qualify.

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HQ_green

Aug 15, 2017 05:04pm

All three are our legends, Respect from depth of my heart. Quickfact - Pakistan won champions trophy only when all three of them retired :D

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Musharraf Ali

Aug 15, 2017 05:29pm

Hall of fame idea from ABL is great . Invite alive cricketers or dependents of them if they are not alive or not in Pakistan in another ceremony of hall of fame cricketers. Suggested forgotten Names: Fazal Mehmood, Imtiaz Ahmed, Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Wazir Mohammad, Mushtaq Mohammad, Hanif Mohammed, Sadiq Mohammad, Intikhab Alam, Majid Khan, Zaheer Abbass, Asif Iqbal, Iqbal Qasim, Wasim Raja, Anwer Saeed, Saqlain Mushtaq, Mushtaq Ahmed, Salim Malik, Ejaz Ahmad, Sarfaraz Nawaz, Mohsin Hasan, Javed Miandad, Amir Suhail, Rameez Raja, Imran khan, Wasim Bari etc. After nineties or within last 2 decades, we all remember by heart - PCB can add if I miss any super star of past.

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mobeen

Aug 15, 2017 05:56pm

@A Ali I am sorry for your such a low level of information regarding Pakistani cricket. Afridi has been MAN OF THE MATCH more times than any other Pakistani.

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mobeen

Aug 15, 2017 05:58pm

@KB Because he (AFRIDI) has been the most MAN OF THE MATCH player than any other Pakistani.

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Dawn

Aug 15, 2017 05:58pm

I beg to differ with this honour.Afridi on the same pedestal as the great Younis, Misbah? If Afridi will be honoured thus why not the past greater giants of the team- Wasim Mushtaq, Javed, Imran, Inzmam, Yousuf, Waqar, ....?

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Jamal

Aug 15, 2017 06:13pm

Younis & Misbah I agree but why this joker Afridi? This guy is a mediocre & over rated player, always played politics in the team, incompetent captain, zero leadership skills and has played for himself rather than for the team and country.

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abbottonian 43

Aug 15, 2017 10:34pm

why Shahid Afridi ?

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abbottonian 43

Aug 15, 2017 10:42pm

the credit of current wins of Pak Crtk team goes to S. Afridi. due to his leaving of the team we started to win again. for this he should be awarded much than he deserves ...

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Imran

Aug 16, 2017 03:42am

They thoroughly deserve that.. looking forward to September matches.

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RIZ

Aug 16, 2017 05:54am

Let's do this and move on and think more about future which is most important.

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mak

Aug 16, 2017 02:55pm

lala is a living legend for me. he is almost only crowed puller in the field.

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