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PCB to have single selection panel

Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to have a single selection committee to pick both national senior and junior teams and also not to appoint paid selectors in future.

A senior PCB official told PTI that the hue and cry over the dissolution of the separate selection committees was not justified as people did not know the real facts.

“The governing council at its last meeting had expressed dissatisfaction with the working of the selection committees.

The council members asked cairman Ejaz Butt to finish the practice of having paid selectors and appoint new ones on honorary basis,” the official said.

“They suggested that in future selectors be appointed on honorary basis but be given stipends, daily allowances and other perks as admissible under board rules,” he added.

He said it was also decided that in future there would be only one national selection committee which would pick all teams and that the governing council members were not happy with the working of former chief selector Abdul Qadir.

A number of candidates are being tipped to be appointed on the new committee with names of former Test players Aamer Sohail, Haroon Rasheed, Saleem Yousuf and Basit Ali doing the rounds.

Meanwhile, Pakistan opener Imran Nazir was cleared for national duty again after apologising for his outburst in a domestic tournament, the cricket board said on Friday.

The 27-year-old batsman is expected to return for the one-day series in Sri Lanka starting on July 30, after he was punished for misconduct during a Twenty20 tournament final in Lahore. — Agencies

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