The PCB has lastly held elections and appointed a full-time chairman, with Mohsin Naqvi elected for a three-year time period. The PCB introduced the appointment on Tuesday with out offering every other particulars, merely saying he had been elected unopposed because the thirty seventh PCB chairman.
“I’m deeply honoured and humbled to have been unanimously elected because the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board,” Naqvi stated. “I’m grateful for the belief and confidence reposed in me. I’m absolutely dedicated to upgrading the usual of the sport within the nation and bringing professionalism within the administration of cricket in Pakistan.”
Naqvi will proceed to function Punjab’s caretaker chief minister alongside his function on the helm of the PCB. This had raised eyebrows final week when the PCB election commissioner, Khawar Shah, briefly took over the chairmanship when Ashraf resigned. However Khawar defended Naqvi holding each roles, saying the PCB guidelines forbade a chairman from holding an “workplace of revenue” concurrently, and argued – considerably incongruously – that Naqvi didn’t.
Naqvi’s time period as caretaker chief minister has already prolonged nicely past its constitutional realm. In response to Pakistani regulation, a caretaker authorities can serve in that capability for solely three months whereas preparations for upcoming elections happen. Naqvi, nevertheless, was appointed over a yr in the past, in January 2023, with Pakistan’s elections pushed again by a number of months. His time as chief minister of Pakistan’s largest province will lastly finish later this week, when Pakistan go to the polls for common elections on February 8.
Whereas Naqvi doesn’t have any recognized cricketing expertise or a background in cricketing administration, that’s not uncommon for most PCB chairmen, particularly over the previous decade. Neither Najam Sethi nor Zaka Ashraf, the 2 males who held that place for the most effective a part of the final ten years, had such expertise earlier than being first appointed, with Ehsan Mani and Ramiz Raja exceptions somewhat than the rule.
The opposite urgent problem for the brand new chairmen will concern the internet hosting of the one ICC occasion Pakistan has been awarded this decade. The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy is scheduled to happen within the nation, which requires vital logistical and administrative preparedness, together with the development of acceptable amenities to host as many as eight groups concurrently. Pakistan haven’t performed host to an occasion of that dimension for the reason that 1996 World Cup.
