Aamer Sohail named Pakistan’s chief selectorUmar Farooq
February 4, 2014
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Former Pakistan batsman Aamer Sohail has been appointed the PCB’s director of game development, as well as chief selector. Pakistan have not had a full-time chairman of selectors since Iqbal Qasim decided to not renew his contract with the PCB in July 2013.
Subsequently Moin Khan was named chief selector, only to be removed when the Islamabad High Courtoverruled all major decisions taken by interim PCB chairman Najam Sethi. The PCB had been functioning under an interim management committee for a large chunk of 2013 as a fallout of the court suspending Zaka Ashraf as board chairman in May - it ruled Ashraf’s election to be questionable. But then Ashraf was reinstated by the court as PCB chief in January.
Ashraf confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that Sohail’s appointment was one of the major changes approved by the PCB’s governing board on Monday.
This is a politically influenced decision, as he is PML-N. Also, this spells ruins for Pakistan cricket and Karachi cricketers. Welcome back Imran Farhat and Kamran Akmal to the Pakistan team...Fittay Moun. Punjab based team coming up very soon and no changes in the selection committee members, are you kidding me? This is another backward step.
