Prime minister Imran Khan to re-nominate Mani and Asad Ali Khan for another term in the Board of Governors
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\nImran Khan, the Pakistan Prime Minister and PCB\u2019s patron in chief, is all set to re-nominate Ehsan Mani and Asad Ali Khan for another term in the PCB Board of Governors.
\nThe extension means Mani will continue as the PCB chairman, subject to the due formality of re-election by August this year. Mani was previously elected unopposed in 2018 for a term of three years.
\nMani met Imran at the Prime Minister\u2019s house on June 21, where Imran extended his support for Mani to carry on with the role. Mani\u2019s first term will end in August, but according to the PCB constitution, any of the nine board members can be up for elections, so long as the individual\u2019s total tenure as chairman \u201cshall in no case exceed a period of six years\u201d.
\nWhile all nine existing board members are eligible to contest the elections, historically only one of the two individuals directly nominated by the Prime Minister has become the PCB chairman. Mani was previously the only candidate to have submitted his nomination papers for the post, and all members of the Board of Governors unanimously voted for him to head the PCB. Mani had replaced Najam Sethi, who had resigned when Imran\u2019s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) came into power in the federal government.
\nOver the last three years, Mani has revamped the functioning of the PCB, such as redrafting the board\u2019s constitution, making it in line with the practices of corporate governance. Till 2019, the PCB chairman could also act as CEO, which gave him the power to implement whichever of the board\u2019s policies they thought were fit. This has since been curbed by introducing the position of a chief executive officer.
\nMani also oversaw an enormous change in the country\u2019s domestic structure, dismantling the previous departmental and regional cricket, and turning it into the provincial team model at Imran\u2019s insistence. The change sparked country-wide outrage with the new system costing several players their livelihood. Eventually, the PCB created jobs for all the veteran cricketers at the association level, inviting them to take up positions at various fields, such as coaching, administration and umpiring.
\nMani has mostly had a smooth ride overseeing the revival of international cricket in Pakistan, but the groundwork for that was largely laid by the previous regime. One notable difference is that Mani\u2019s administration has not had to pay any money to get other teams to tour Pakistan.
\nOne of the other highlights of Mani\u2019s tenure has been the introduction of four independent directors to the Board of Governors, including a woman for the first time in Alia Zafar. Mani rewrote the constitution in 2019, revoking the Board of Governors\u2019 membership and reducing the numerical strength of the cricket-playing associations from eight to three in a bid to offset their influence. Besides Zafar, the other three independent directors are Javed Kureishi (finance executive), Asim Wajid Jawad (economics expert) an Arif Saeed (economist and corporate executive). Kureishi and Saeed were appointed for three years, while Zafar and Wajid will retain their positions for two years. Courtesy ESPNcricinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime minister Imran Khan to re-nominate Mani and Asad Ali Khan for another term in the Board of Governors islamabad Imran Khan, the Pakistan Prime Minister and PCB\u2019s patron in chief, is all set to re-nominate Ehsan Mani and Asad Ali Khan for another term in the PCB Board of Governors. The extension means Mani […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n