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Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Tuesday was elected unopposed as the 37th chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
In a post on X, the cricket board said: “Mr Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi has been elected unanimously and unopposed as the PCB’s 37th Chairman today.”
The PCB also shared a photo of Naqvi meeting chief selector Wahab Riaz and the board’s Chief Operating Officer Salman Naseer.
The country’s cricket governing body had been without a chairman for the last 13 months with the PCB having been run by two separate interim management committees during that time.
Naqvi’s appointment has filled the spot left vacant in the PCB’s Board of Governors by former chief Zaka Ashraf, who stepped down from the post on January 19.
The resignation had come three days after the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) had disallowed Ashraf from holding an IMC meeting wherein he was supposed to form the Board of Governors, which was the first step to hold the elections of PCB chairman for a three-year term.
On Jan 22, Naqvi’s name emerged as the frontrunner to become the new PCB chairman Interim Management Committee. Sources said the media mogul had the backing of caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar — who is also the PCB’s patron-in-chief — to take up the role.
On January 27, the PCB had announced the composition of its Board of Governors in accordance with Paragraph 10 of the 2014 PCB constitution. Naqvi and Mustafa Ramday were included in the Board of Governors as two nominees of the prime minister. The remaining eight members came equally from regional cricket associations and departments.
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