PCB confirms appointment of advisory members to chief selector

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Lahore. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has confirmed the appointment of former Pakistan cricketers Kamran Akmal, Rao Iftikhar Anjum and Salman Butt as advisory members to chief selector Wahab Riaz.

In a statement issued on Friday, the PCB said, “All three (Kamran Akmal, Rao Iftikhar Anjum and Salman Butt) have assumed their responsibilities in the selection panel with immediate effect. Their first assignment as advisory members to the chief selector includes the upcoming five-match T20 series against New Zealand, which is scheduled to begin on January 12, 2024, following the conclusion of Australia’s Test tour.

It further states, “When not engaged in selection duties, advisory members may be assigned additional tasks such as conducting skill camps.”

Kamran Akmal played 53 Tests, 157 ODIs and 58 T20 matches in a career spanning 15 years from 2002 to 2017. The former wicketkeeper-batsman scored 6,871 runs across all formats and took 453 dismissals behind the stumps. He was a member of the Pakistan team that won the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2009 at Lord’s.

Rao Iftikhar played one Test, 62 ODIs and two T20 matches from 2004 to 2010 and took a total of 78 international wickets. He was also a part of the team that won the T20 World Cup in 2009.

Former Test captain Salman Butt represented Pakistan in 33 Tests, 78 ODIs and 24 T20s. He scored 5,209 runs across all three formats with 11 international centuries. He was in the T20 World Cup winning team in 2009.

Earlier, former Pakistan fast bowler Wahab Riaz was appointed as the new chief selector of the National Men’s Selection Committee after Inzamam Ul Haq resigned from the post of chief selector over allegations of conflict of interest in Pakistan’s team selection process for the World Cup. I went.

–IANS

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