Naqvi, who final week informed Pakistan cricketers he didn’t need to see politics seep into cricket, stated in an announcement he was “dedicated to supporting and serving our nation in each doable means”.
The twin position is prone to elevate eyebrows, however based mostly on previous priority, the PCB believes any violation of the its personal structure has not occurred. When the PCB election commissioner Khawar Shah briefly took over the caretaker chairmanship, he defended Naqvi holding two roles, saying the board’s guidelines forbade a boss from holding an “workplace of revenue” concurrently, and argued that Naqvi didn’t. The PCB has privately maintained that since Naqvi says he won’t draw a wage from his position on the Inside Ministry, the identical line of reasoning applies.
Whereas the ICC, in concept, does take a dim view of political interference in its Members’ cricketing affairs, they’ve clamped down on it solely sporadically. There’s priority on the subject of board chairs holding ministries elsewhere on the subcontinent. Sharad Pawar served as BCCI president when he was additionally India’s Minister for Agriculture, whereas the present BCB chairman Nazmul Hasan serves as Bangladesh’s Minister of Youth and Sports activities.
Previously, the ICC has maintained to ESPNcricinfo there must be a complaining get together for the it to become involved to evaluate whether or not political interference has occurred at a cricket board. That was the case when, within the current previous, Zimbabwe Cricket and Sri Lanka Cricket have been briefly suspended.
