The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) appoints Mohsin Naqvi as chairman
Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi, the interim Chief Minister of the State of Punjab, was elected as the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday.
He was elected unopposed by the Board of Governors of the PCB and will serve a three-year term starting from Tuesday.
Naqvi now assumes the role of the 37th chairman of the Pakistan board.
The unanimous election took place at a meeting of the BoG convened by interim chairman Shah Khawar at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore.
“I am deeply honored and humbled to have been unanimously elected as the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
I am thankful for the trust and confidence reposed in me.
I am fully committed to elevating the standard of the game in the country and bringing professionalism to the administration of cricket in Pakistan,” Naqvi said.
The PCB has been without a full-time chairman since December 2022, when Ramiz Raja, a former national captain and the handpicked candidate of the then Prime Minister Imran Khan, was removed by a midnight government notification.
Since then, Najam Sethi and Zaka Ashraf have filled in for different periods in interim capacities.
Ashraf was the last chief, who stepped down on January 19.
Well-read and erudite, the 45-year-old Naqvi is known as a media mogul who had a training stint at CNN in the US.
Having worked for the American news network, he now owns his own channel called 24 News in Pakistan.
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