da fazobetai： The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Friday promoted Iqbal Qasim tochairman of the Cricket Management Committee in place of Javed Miandadwho had refused to work with the present setup
20-Oct-2001The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Friday promoted Iqbal Qasim tochairman of the Cricket Management Committee in place of Javed Miandadwho had refused to work with the present setup.Iqbal Qasim had been serving as acting chairman of the committee.Miandad, a couple of month back, had refused to head the CMC in whatis expected to be his reaction after he was unceremoniously dumped asPakistan coach after the tour to New Zealand in April.Iqbal, who also served as selector in the present setup, later gavethe PCB chairman a detailed briefing on the domestic season andqualifications for departmental teams to get entry into Patron’sTrophy Grade-II.The PCB chairman also accepted its marketing consultant Zahid Bashir’sresignation. Zahid had been engaged in cold war with some of the topPCB officials who were unhappy with him.The high level meeting of the PCB also reviewed the complete andrevised Vision-2005 documents. The approved documents were likely tobe released in about a fortnight, a spokesman said in a press release.The PCB chairman also held a meeting with the members ofthe seniorselection committee and senior cricket officials to reviewtheperformance of players based on domestic cricket tournament matchesplayed so far. Plans for future were also discussed, the statementadded.The PCB chairman also held meeting with the junior selection committeeto review the performance of Grade-II competitions. The selectorssubmitted their observations, especially about the new talentdiscovered during the matches.The training and future plans of the Under-19 were also discussed.