PESHAWAR
Ex-Secretary District Cricket Association Dir Upper and Manager of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gold medalist that won Pakistan Cup in 2016 Mukhtiar Hussain and the entire cricketing circles of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Friday hailed Amir Nawab for his election as President Regional Cricket Association Abbottabad and Secretary Sajjad Ali Khan unanimously.
A notification in this connection was issued by Pakistan Cricket Board on August 17, last, soon after the election conducted by Election Commissioner of the Pakistan Cricket Board Mehmood Iqbal Khakwani with Amir Nawab, a former Pakistan Cricket Board governing body member, taking all 14 votes out of total 19 valid votes.
It is worth mentioning here that Regional Cricket Association Abbottabad has 21 total votes, out of which one vote was cancelled due to submission of a fake degree with five members, having voting writes, decided to abstain.
The vote of the President of Abbottabad Cricket Association Mr. Abid Khan was declared ineligible because of the submission of fake degree while the vote of Rashid Ur Rehman, who participated in the Local Government Election in 2021, was DE notified, and the rest of five voters boycotted from the election, however, among them two of them were Amir Nawab’s supporters.
Talking to APP, Amir Nawab said that he believes in serving the cricket and the youth associated with this game of the entire province like he had been rendered the same when he was member of the Governing Board of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Regional Cricket Association Abbottabad seven affiliated districts including Mansehra, Abbottabad, Haripur, Swabi, Buner, Dir Upper with each district having three votes each of the President, Secretary and Treasurer. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa there are three regional cricket associations setup including Peshawar, Abbottabad and Fata. Both Peshawar and Fata completed their governing board members’ tremor and now it is a good chance for Amir Nawab to be a member of the BoG of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
He said there is lot of talent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that is why Khyber Pakhtunkhwa got the honor of winning all national Cups of the various formats held under the aegis of Pakistan Cricket Board including U13, U16, U19, Pakistan Cup, and Quaid-e-Trophy for three times, National Inter-District Club Championship etc.
He said if properly facilitated the players, they would show better results in the future. “We worked hard earlier even when I was member of the BoG of the Pakistan Cricket Board besides establishing cricketing academies from where players are coming up to the National side,” Amir Nawab said.
He said after the election, we are duty bound to serve all players hailing from different districts besides developing cricket at the grassroots level. He said performance base selection is the main tool bringing genuine talent to various forms of cricket, both at the domestic and international levels.
Amir Nawab said without the support of all the elected district representatives one could not work successfully so together we could serve in a more appropriate manner under the supervision of Pakistan Cricket Board.
