Four nominees included in BoG in place of elected members.

Byline: Mohammad Yaqoob

For the first time in history an unelected Board of Governors (BoG) was formed on Monday as the Pakistan Cricket Board included four more nominated members in place of four elected ones, while still all the three elected members are yet to come as the PCB continues to make the mockery of its affairs.

The new BoG was constituted during its 59th meeting held here on Monday under PCB chairman Ehsan Mani.

The PCB issued a press release after the BoG meeting on Monday.

"The BoG, in accordance with PCB Constitution 2019 Clause 12(1)(c), unanimously approved the appointment of four independent members. They are: Mr Javed Kurieshi, Mr Arif Saeed, Mr Aasim Wajid Jawad and Ms Alia Zafar. Mr Javed Kurieshi and Mr Arif Saeed have been appointed to the BoG for a three-year period, while Mr Aasim Wajid Jawad and Ms Alia Zafar have been appointed for a two-year period," the press release said.

"Following the appointment of the four independent members, the new BoG has been formed. The remaining three members on the BoG will be appointed following completion of the election process at the Cricket Association level."

According to the new PCB constitution which was implemented from Aug 19, 2019, new BoG was to be formed forthwith but it took 15 months for the PCB to give new shape to the BoG.

However, still the BoG structure remains undemocratic and incomplete as no elected member has been included in it yet.

So far all the seven members are nominees. Among them PCB chairman Ehsan Mani and Asad Ali Khan are the nominees of patron-in-chief of the PCB Prime Minister Imran Khan, while four new members - Javed Qureshi, Arif Saeed, Aalia Zafar and Asim Wajid Jawad - were nominated by the PCB nominee committee, which was formed soon after the implementation of the new constitution on Aug 19, 2019.

But the committee took 15 months to name four persons and hardly anyone of them holds cricketing background. The seventh BoG member is PCB chief executive Wasim Khan.

The nominee committee was headed by Asad Ali Khan with Abdullah Shahriaz Rokhari (both members of the BoG) and Bakhtiar Khawaja were the members.

The previous BoG, it can be recalled, was more democratic and performance-oriented as it contained four elected members from defunct regional cricket associations on rotation basis plus four members from defunct departments, affiliated with the PCB; and their representative came in the BoG after their teams attained top four positions in...