LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board will have an elected chairman on Feb 6 after the board’s election commissioner Shah Khawar summoned a special meeting of its Board of Governors here at the National Cricket Academy.

The country’s cricket governing body had been without a chairman for the last 13 months with the PCB having been run by two separate interim management committees during that time.

The elections of the PCB are being held just two days before the general elections in the country. The Prime Minister is the PCB’s patron-in-chief, having the power to nominate two members in the ten-member BoG, which is the electoral college to elect the chairman.

However, the new PCB chief wouldn’t be the nominee of the incoming prime minister as caretaker prime minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar has nominated Mohsin Naqvi to replace Zaka Ashraf, who resigned as the chief of the interim management committee this month.

Zaka, alongside Mustafa Ramday, had been nominated to the BoG by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

“The notice of the meeting is issued as per the provisions of the constitution of the Pakistan Cricket Board 2014. It is mandatory for all the members of the BoG to attend the meeting in person,” a PCB statement said on Monday.

The BoG, which doesn’t have representatives from the big regions of the country, was notified on Saturday with the election commissioner following the rotation policy in selecting the regions and departments.

Published in Dawn, January 30th, 2024