Lahore
\nThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is set to get its new chairman on September 13 after the PCB Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sheikh Azmat Saeed called a special meeting of the board of governors (BOG).
\nThe election commissioner made the decision in his first meeting at the Gaddafi Stadium on Friday afternoon, in which he also directed to issue notices of the special meeting to the BoG members, a statement from the PCB said.
\nEarlier on Friday morning, PCB Patron-in-Chief Prime Minister Imran Khan had nominated Asad Ali Khan and Ramiz Raja on the BoG for a three-year term while exercising his powers under clause 12(1) of the PCB Constitution.
\nThe other five members on the BoG are Aasim Wajid Jawad, Alia Zafar, Arif Saeed, and Javed Kurieshi \u2014 all independent members \u2014 and PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan, the statement added.
\nIt is pertinent to mention here that Raja, speaking to Geo News a day earlier, had said he had been informed of becoming the new chairman of the board through a communique from the PM\u2019s Office.
\n\u201cAfter being elected \u2014 as the new chairman \u2014 by the board of governors, I will address a press conference,\u201d he said and expressed he had many plans for PCB.
\nDays after meeting with PM Imran Khan, Ehsan Mani on Thursday had excused himself from continuing to work as the PCB chairman.
\nMani had also confirmed that he is not interested in working as PCB chairman anymore.
\nSelection criteria
\nAccording to the PCB constitution, the BoGs select the new chairman from within its members.
\nClause 6(1) of PCB states that the chairman of the board is elected by the board of governors from amongst themselves following clause 7 (of the PCB constitution) for three years.
\nClause 7 explains the process to elect the chairman of the PCB which shall be done by convening a special meeting of the board of governors by the majority of the total voting membership.
\nThe board of governors should, according to the constitution, have 11 members, with 10 having voting rights, under clause 12 of the PCB constitution which defines the \u201ccomposition of the board of governors.\u201d
\nAccording to 12.1 of PCB constitution, (a) three members from amongst the cricket association being the elected presidents of such CA, (b) two members nominated by the Patron, (c) four independent members amongst the nomination sent by the nomination committee, (d) Federal Secretary of Inter-Provincial Committee as an ex-officio member who will not be entitled to vote and (e.) the chief executive of the PCB.
\nClause 13(2) of the constitution suggests that the quorum of the meeting shall be with five voting members including at least one member each appointed under paragraphs a, b and c of 12.1. However, there\u2019s a provision for the quorum to be reduced pro-rata if the number of members is reduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lahore The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is set to get its new chairman on September 13 after the PCB Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sheikh Azmat Saeed called a special meeting of the board of governors (BOG). The election commissioner made the decision in his first meeting at the Gaddafi Stadium on Friday afternoon, in which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n