Najam Sethi will replace Shaharyar Khan as the Pakistan Cricket Board chief after Khan quit because of health and personal reasons after completing his tenure.<\/p>\n
Renowned journalist Najam Sethi was elected as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board for a three-year term on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Sethi, 69, will replace Shaharyar Khan, who quit because of health and personal reasons after completing his tenure. Sethi was unopposed and was unanimously elected by a 10-member new PCB board of governors.<\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had appointed Sethi as member of the board of governors last month. It is mandatory, according to the PCB\u2019s constitution, that the chairman should be elected from the members of the board of governors.<\/p>\n
Sethi was also a former caretaker chief minister of the Punjab province and was the key official behind the successful staging of Pakistan\u2019s domestic Twenty20 league.<\/p>\n
It will be Sethi\u2019s second term as chairman of the PCB after he was involved in a legal battle over the leadership with former PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf. That ended in May 2014 when Sethi said he would not contest elections for the chairman\u2019s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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