Five committees to run PCB; advisory panel abolished

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) advisorycouncil has been dissolved and substituted by five committees to run the board on professional lines.

An announcement by a spokesman of the PCB said here on Sunday that the chairman Lt Gen Tauqir Zia had dissolved the advisory council to bring the board in line with the parent body, International Cricket Council (ICC). After the restructuring of the PCB, the finance advisor Muhammad Naeem will now work as the treasurer and oversee the working of the finance department.

The newly-appointed five committees are: 1. Finance and Marketing Committee; 2. Development Committee; 3. Selection Committee; 4. Review Committee; 5. Management Committee.

Henceforth, all the committees will be reporting directly to the PCB chairman.

The Finance and Marketing Committee will be headed by the PCB chairman himself. It will comprise the PCB director, treasurer, marketing consultant and legal advisor. Its task will be to reviewonregular basis the financialresults,budget, sponsorship and promotion deals made to the PCB.

The development committee will be headed by Ramiz Raja, who was a member of the advisory council. It will look after the cricketinfrastructure development, academies, nurseries, coachingcentres, game at grassroots level and the National Coaching Council.

The management committee will deal with domestic cricket, National Umpiring Council, rules and discipline. This committee will be headed by Javed Miandad, another advisory council member, while Iqbal Qasim will be its vice-chairman.

The PCB chairman will himself head the new selection committee in an honorary capacity. This will have paid selectors, whose names will be announced in due course time. Till then, the present members of the selection committee will continue to work.

The review committee will consider matters pertaining to betting, gambling and match-fixing and will be headed by a retired high-court judge, whose name will be announced later. The PCB chief investigator Asrar Ahmad and Asif Shah will be the other members of this committee.

The PCB chairman has also formed a committee to be headed bythe PCB legal advisor. This will revise and review the PCB constitution and look into the elections of the associations and determine whether those are in line with the new administrative structure.