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The procedure to choose the brand-new Pakistan Cricket Board chairman may be postponed with 2 members of the previous management committee approaching the Lahore High Court. The Lahore High Court will on Monday head 2 petitions submitted by previous PCB management committee members Shakil Sheikh and Gul Zada versus the election procedure to generate Zaka Ashraf as the chairman and the legality of the Board of Governors which will choose the brand-new chief. The petitioners have actually asked for the honourable judge to remain the elections of the chairman and suspend the BOG up until it provides a decision on their petitions.
“It is a predicament due to the fact that the election commissioner and acting Chairman of the board has actually set June 27 as the date for holding election for brand-new Chairman after the modifications made to the Board of Governors,” one source in the board stated.
Paradoxically, when Ashraf had actually ended up being PCB chairman method back in 2012, he had actually dealt with comparable legal difficulties from his predecessor, Najam Sethi, and was even bought to abandon his position as soon as by the Supreme Court.
The PCB patron-in-chief, who occurs to be the nation’s Prime Minister, chooses 2 prospects to the BOG and among them is chosen as chairman.
This time after incumbent Sethi had actually withdrawn from the election race, the leading chosen Zaka Ashraf and Mustafa Ramday as his prospects on the PCB’s BOG.
The unpredictability in Pakistan cricket comes at a time when the ICC and BCCI are set to reveal the schedule for the ODI World Cup on Tuesday.
“It will be a bad scenario for Pakistan cricket if the Lahore High Court concerns any stay order on the petitions today. Due to the fact that at a time when the PCB is confronted with lots of obstacles from the ICC and BCCI, it is necessary to have actually an appropriate chosen chairman,” a senior authorities of the board stated.
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