Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Lt Gen Tauqir Zia has with immediate effect dissolved the PCB Advisory Council and replaced it with 5 Committees to run the Board professionally more in line with ICC, it's parent international body.

In a major restructuring of PCB announced on Sunday to streamline the working of the Board, the Chairman has also ordered complete reorganisation of the body and its functioning. Mr Muhammad Naeem till now its financial advisor has been made the Treasurer to oversee the finance department.

The five new committees are: Finance and Marketing Committee Development Committee Selection Committee Review Committee and the Management Committee, all directly reporting to the Chairman PCB.

The Finance and Marketing Committee will be headed by Chairman PCB and it will consist of the Director PCB, Treasurer, Marketing Consultant and the Legal Advisor.

Its task will be to consider and review on regular basis the financial results, budget, sponsorship and promotion deals made to PCB.

The Development Committee will be headed by Rameez Hasan Raja and will look after cricket infrastructure development, academies, nurseries, coaching centres, grass-root level cricket and the National Coaching Council.

The Management Committee which will deal with Domestic Cricket, National Umpiring Council, Rules and Discipline will be headed by Javed Miandad with Iqbal Qasim as its vice-Chairman.

The new selection committee will be headed by an honorary chairman and paid selectors whose names will be announced in due course of time. Till such time, however, the present committee members will continue to function.

A review committee to consider matters regarding betting, gambling and match-fixing will be headed by a retired judge of the high-court (to be named later), Chief Investigator PCB, Israr Ahmad and Asif Shah will be the other members of the committee.

In addition, Chairman PCB has also formed a Committee to be headed by Legal Advisor to review PCB's Constitution and elections of Associations so as to be in line with new National Administrative Structure.

Khalid Butt
Media Manager
1 July 2001

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