Ramiz Raja all set to take over as PCB chairman; Ehsan Mani steps down

Both
Mani
and
Raja
had
met
Prime
Minister
Imran
Khan,
who
is
also
former
World
Cup-winning
captain
and
patron-in-chief
of
the
board,
for
a
smooth
handover.
An
official
of
the
PCB
confirmed
that
Mani
was
no
longer
chairman
of
the
board
as
his
tenure
ended
on
August
25.

“We
can
make
no
further
comments
on
the
matter
as
the
notification
for
the
election
of
the
new
chairman
will
be
issued
by
the
Prime
Minister’s
house,”
he
said.
However,
as
per
reports
emerging
from
Pakistani
media,
PM
Khan
will
appoint
two
new
Board
of
Governors
and
one
of
them
will
be
the
new
PCB
chief.

It
is
a
matter
of
formality
before
Raja,
who
has
also
been
a
CEO
of
PCB
in
the
past,
takes
charge.
Mani
confirmed
to
Geo
News
channel
that
he
had
declined
to
continue
any
longer
as
chairman
of
the
board.

Raja,
a
member
of
the
1992
World
Cup-winning
Pakistan
team
under
Khan’s
leadership,
has
played
57
Tests
and
198
ODIs
from
which
he
scored
a
total
of
8674
international
runs
with
53
fifties
and
11
hundreds.

“The
aim
is
to
reset
Pakistan
cricket’s
GPS
and
will
be
in
pursuit
of
excellence,”
Raja
was
quoted
as
saying
by
website
Cricbuzz,
which
reported
that
he
had
already
accepted
the
offer.