Pakistan: Chief selector Altaf resigns in protest (4 Mar 1998)

Wednesday, March 04, 1998

Chief selector Altaf resigns in protest

Sports Correspondent

LAHORE, March 3: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief selector Salim Altaf has tendered resignation as a protest against by-passing his committee while picking all-rounder Wasim Akram to re-inforce the Pakistan team now touring South Africa.

Talking to Dawn, former Test pace man Salim Altaf said that he had faxed his resignation to the PCB chief executive Majid Khan on Tuesday.

Salim Altaf, who had assumed the job in July 1996 after the sixth World Cup, said that induction of Wasim Akram in the team was the decision of the newly-appointed PCB chairman Khalid Mahmood and for not asking the selection committee to pick a re-inforcement, he was forced to quit the job forthwith. He thought the decision should also have been approved by the PCB executive council.

"According to the PCB constitution, the chairman can neither interfere in the affairs of the selection committee nor the executive council. The way Mr Khalid Mahmood took a decision on his own reflects that there is no constitution existing! He did not even ask Wasim Akram to prove his fitness", said Salim Altaf regretfully.

Source :: Dawn (https://dawn.com/)