Prime Minister Imran appointed Ehsan Mani as PCB Chairman after Najam Sethi resignation
Sports Times International Report by;
Asghar Ali Mubarak
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan nominated Ehsan Mani as the new chairman Pakistan Cricket Board, after the resignation of Najam Sethi from the post of chairman PCB. PM Imran Khan had a brief conversation with Mani over cricket affairs after taking the oath.
In his message on twitter the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan stated that “I have appointed Ehsan Mani as Chairman PCB. He brings vast and valuable experience to the job. He represented PCB in the ICC; was Treasurer ICC for 3 years and then headed the ICC for another 3 years,” Prime Minister announced.”We will follow the set procedure which entails my nominating him on the PCB Board of Governors. He may then contest elections for the position of Chairman PCB,” the prime minister said in another tweet shortly afterwards.
Imran Khan
✔@ImranKhanPTI
We will follow the set procedure which entails my nominating him on the PCB Board of Governors. He may then contest elections for the position of Chairman PCB.
Imran Khan
✔@ImranKhanPTI I have appointed Ehsan Mani as Chairman PCB. He brings vast and valuable experience to the job. He represented PCB in the ICC; was Treasurer ICC for 3 yrs and then headed the ICC for another 3 years.
Talking to media after his nomination, Ehsan Mani said that PM Imran Khan shares his vision for the betterment of Pakistan cricket. “I want to improve Pakistan cricket on the grassroots level. We will enhance the domestic structure as according to PM Imran Khan’s vision,” he said. “PM wants Pakistan cricket top on the international level.”Ehsan Mani said that cricket in the country can be improved by implementation on a comprehensive and concrete plan. Ehsan Mani, born in Rawalpindi, became ICC President in June 2003. He was nominated for the position by the PCB, whom he represented at the ICC from 1989 until 1996.In 1996 he was elected by all countries to the position of Chairman of the ICC Finance and Marketing Committee, a position he held until the Committee was dissolved in June 2002 when he took over as Vice-President of the ICC Executive Board. Ehsan Mani has served on a number of ICC Committees, including the Chairman’s Advisory Committee, set up to advice Lord Cowdrey and Sir Clyde Walcott during their tenures. He also worked on the Rules Review Committee and the Governance and Organization Committee. Ehsan Mani was also the PCB’s representative on the organizing committee of the 1996 ICC Cricket World Cup in Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka, and was a member of the ICC Cricket World Cup Advisory Committee for the 1999 tournament in England. A Chartered Accountant by profession and long-time UK resident, Mani is on the Board of a number of UK companies, which include banking and real estate. His financial expertise was used to good effect when playing a major role in the sale of ICC media rights in 2000; negotiations which achieved a guaranteed income of $550 million for international cricket, up to and including the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007.Ehsan Mani played cricket for the Rawalpindi Club from 1959 to 1965 as a left-arm fast medium bowler and a right-handed batsman alongside a number of players who went on to earn international honors’ before leaving for England to further his studies. Earlier the former chief minister Punjab Najam Sethi said that he was stepping down as Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board. The Prime Minister Imran Khan had in 2014 accused Sethi of being ‘rewarded’ with the PCB chairmanship in return for ’35 punctures’ — an allusion to the ‘fixing’ of results of 35 constituencies in the 2013 election in favour of the PML-N. “I was waiting for the new Prime Minister to take oath before submitting my resignation as PCB Chairman, which I have done today. I wish PCB all the best and hope our cricket team goes from strength to strength. Eid Mubarak. Pakistan Zindabad,” Sethi said in a Twitter statement which also carried a copy of his resignation to Prime Minister Imran Khan. “I was nominated to the Board of Governors of the Pakistan Cricket Board (as per the Pakistan Cricket Board Constitution of 2014 by the ICC and Supreme Court of Pakistan) by ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from 2014-17 and then again from 2017-2020 by ex-Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi,” Sethi wrote. “I was unanimously elected Chairman PCB in August 2017 by all ten members of the BoG for a three-year term ending in 2020. I believe I have served the cause of cricket diligently,” he said. “You have said on many occasions that you have a vision for Pakistan cricket. Therefore, it is only proper that you should assume charge and responsibility for assembling a management team for PCB that enjoys your full confidence and trust.””In order to facilitate your objectives in the interest of Pakistan cricket, I hereby submit my resignation as Chairman of PCB and Member of its BOG,” he concluded.
About: Chairman of PCB Ehsan Manai
Mr.Ehsan Manai is an ex-ICC president and current Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). He was born in Rawalpindi in Pakistan on March 23, 1945. He spent his early life in Pakistan playing for the Rawalpindi Club and Government College Lahore XI from 1959 to 1965 as a right-hand batsman and a left-arm fast medium bowler before moving to the United Kingdom to complete his further studies. Mani is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has resided in the UK since the late-1960s.
From 1989 to 1996, Mani represented the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in the ICC. For the 1996 Cricket World Cup, he was on the advisory committee as the PCB representative. He was also on the same committee during the 1999 Cricket World Cup played in England. In 1996, he was elected by the ICC member nations to the position of Chairman of the ICC Finance and Marketing Committee. He held on to this post until it was dissolved in June 2002. After that he took over as the Vice-President of the ICC Executive Board. He has also served on a number of ICC Committees, such as the Chairman’s Advisory Committee, set up to advice Lord Cowdrey and Sir Clyde Walcott during their stint as ICC President. Other committees he has been a part of are the Rules Review Committee and the Governance and Organization Committee. In June 2003, he became the ICC President. Mani is on the board of a number of UK companies mostly banking and real-estate. He is also the chairman of Galiyat Development Authority, member of board of governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust and member of board of directors of Biafo Industries Ltd in Pakistan. The Prime Minister Imran Khan appointed Ehsan Mani as Chairman PCB on 20 August 2018.
About: former Chairman PCB Najam Aziz Sethi
He served as Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board. As a journalist he is a left-leaning political commentator who serves as the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times and serves as Chairman of Pakistan Super League. He has also served as the caretaker chief minister of Punjab during the 2013 election. He formerly used to host primetime current affairs show Aapas ki Baat on Geo News.
Born in Lahore, Sethi studied economics at the Government College, and later moved to Clare College at Cambridge University where he received his master’s degree in economics and progressed as a PhD student; however, he left to join a socialist movement working for the rights of Baluchistan, leading to his arrest in 1975 before being discharged in 1978. He consequently left politics and established Vanguard Books, a progressive book publishing company.
In 1989, Sethi along with his wife Jugnu Mohsin launched an independent English weekly, The Friday Times. He was arrested by the second Nawaz Sharif government in 1999 on trumped-up charges of treason before being released by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Sethi won the 1999 International Press Freedom Award of the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the 2009 World Association of Newspapers’ Golden Pen of Freedom Award. On 26 March 2013, his name was approved for the interim position of the chief minister of Punjab as a result of consensus between members of the selection committee comprising individuals from both the governing and the opposing political parties. He took the oath on 27 March 2013, and left the office after the May 2013 elections on 6 June 2013.
