High Court suspends Ashraf as PCB chairman

Captain1 · June 4, 2013, 6:31pm

Re: High Court suspends Ashraf as PCB chairman

As per the new constitution, the board of governors was restructured to include ten members - five regional representatives on the basis of rotation and five representatives of service organisations and departments - with voting rights. Of the ten, PCB was able to appoint nine, all of whom voted in favour of Ashraf’s nomination. However, there was no representation from Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province with 60% of country’s population, while two new regions without any first-class team -** Larkana** and Dera Murad Jamali - were drafted in to the board.
The process was conducted without any prior announcement, the PCB revealing the appointment through a press release.
The PCB’s new constitution was produced as a result of the 2011 ICC directive, which required that its member boards become autonomous and free of interference from governments by June 2013. Removal of government interference had also been one of the Woolf report recommendations approved by the ICC. However, in November 2012, the ICC said it was reviewing its stance against government involvement in the administration of cricket.
Ashraf has been the PCB’s chairman since 2011, previously working under the old constitution, under which he was appointed for an indefinite period by the patron, President Asif Ali Zardari.

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