PCB yet to adopt new domestic system as BoGs tenure nears end.

Byline: Mohammad Yaqoob

LAHORE -- While the tenure of the incumbent Board of Governors (BoGs) of the Pakistan Cricket, which is primarily composed of the members who represented the now-defunct regions and departments, is expiring on Aug 8 this year, the Board seems still far from replacing them with new members because the process to revamp the domestic system under the new PCB constitution that came into effecton Aug 19, 2019, remains at an initial stage.

Under the present scenario, there are chances that the PCB will continue to take advantage of Clause 49 of the new constitution concerning transitional period, which does not fix any time for the PCB to complete the implementation of the constitution. Therefore, it seems, the same BoG members of the defunct regions and departmental representatives will continue to function till the completion of the revamping operation.

According to the new constitution, four independent members, to be nominated by a nominating committee and three from the provincial cricket associations (CA) are to be part of the next BoG. However, neither any CA exists nor the names of four independent members have been announced so far. Besides them, two members to be appointed by the patron have already been inducted into the BoG while the CEO is also included as one of the members.

The PCB has disaffiliated 16 regions, while abolishing departmental cricket to replace domestic cricket with six CAs namely Central and Southern Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Northern and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, aiming to promote quality cricket instead of taking care of too many players, under the new constitution. However, so far the PCB has not made any visible progress for replacing the previous domestic system with the new one.

To form the new CAs, the biggest hindrance was caused by one of the newly-introduced clauses in the constitution, which binds the PCB to register all CAs under the Companies Act.

But the work to get those CAs registered is going on at a snail's pace as only the association of Northern could be registered in 11 months, according to a PCB spokesman. Until the registration of the remaining five CAs, the PCB cannot move forward to implement its new domestic system, and for that the transitional period clause of the constitution is allowing it to avail unreasonable time.

Interestingly, according to the existing situation, no club across the country is affiliated with their zone/city or even with the PCB.

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