Moin Khan to continue as manager and chief selector: PCB

Former Pakistan keeper-batsman will stay on 
as chief selector and team manager © Getty

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will announce a new national selection committee next month but will allow Moin Khan to continue in his roles as chief selector and team manager till the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. Speaking to the media after the meeting of the Board of Governors in Lahore, PCB chairman, Shaharyar Khan said the board would announce four new selectors early next next month who would work with Moin.

In an earlier interview, the PCB chairman had said that the board was considering Naved Akram Cheema, a senior bureaucrat to manage the team during the ICC World Cup 2015. Shaharyar had said that the board was waiting for the Punjab government to release Akram Cheema from his position as Chief Secretary of the province. However, that did not work out for PCB.

Shaharyar Khan also made it clear that Moin Khan apart, Mushtaq Ahmed would also continue in his dual roles till the World Cup and saw no reasons for that to change as they were doing a good job. He said PCB didn't want to tinker with core support staff ahead of the World Cup. 

"Moin, Mushtaq Ahmed and Aisha Ashar will continue to do their dual jobs but seven other employees of the board who have are doing dual jobs have been told to choose one position," he said.

While Moin is the chief selector and manager of the national team, Mushtaq Ahmed is bowling coach with the National Cricket Academy in Lahore and also spin bowling consultant of the national team. 

Khan also announced that suspended off-spinner Saeed Ajmal would undergo another private biomechanic test in the UK next week after which he would be asked to play in domestic matches. 

"After he does that, we will request the ICC to carry out his official test," said Khan, adding he was hopeful that his bowling action issue would be resolved before PCB has to send the final squad for the World Cup to the ICC in the first week of January.