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PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi, a former politician, is main the board strictly. He reportedly despatched again the 2025 Champions Trophy squad checklist for overview to make sure one of the best gamers had been chosen.
PCB president Mohsin Naqvi.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Mohsin Naqvi is reportedly main the group ‘with an iron hand’ and a politician. In response to PTI, he despatched again the 2025 Champions Trophy squad checklist to the nationwide selectors for them to ‘once more overview’ and ‘ensure that’ one of the best choices had been chosen.
The report stated that Naqvi, a former politician who’s serving as the inside minister of Pakistan, has kept away from interfering in cricketing issues to this point however continues to be ensuring he’s ruthless in his angle towards the functioning of one of the notoriously unorganized cricketing boards on this planet.
“When the squad for the Champion Trophy was finalized by the selectors and despatched to Naqvi for approval he despatched it again telling the selectors to once more overview the squad to make certain one of the best gamers had been chosen,” PTI cited a PCB supply as saying.
“It was solely after the third time that the chairman authorised the 15-member squad for the mega-event however made it clear to the selectors and workforce administration they had been solely chargeable for it,” the supply stated.
“Naqvi, having remained the caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab, is operating the board affairs with an iron hand and no resolution is applied or executed with out his remaining approval,” the supply claimed. “He has now primarily introduced in his personal workforce of bureaucrats and authorities officers to run the cricket and board affairs.”
He has been within the job because the PCB chief since February 6, 2024, overseeing the nation’s disastrous time on the 2024 T20 World Cup and the following preparations for the 2025 Champions Trophy, their first ICC event since 1996, the discussions with the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) and the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the hybrid internet hosting mannequin as effectively the workforce’s readiness.
Pakistan have began the event poorly, shedding to New Zealand by 60 runs within the opener in Karachi. They’ll now face India on Sunday, February 23 — a match they’ll should win to retain hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals.