PCB Selecting Customers

KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided not to appoint paid selectors in future and will have a single selection committee to pick both
national senior and junior teams. A senior PCB official said that the hue and cry over the dissolution of the separate selection committees was not justified as people do not know the real facts. "The governing council at its last meeting had expressed dissatisfaction with the working of the selection committees. The council members asked the Chairman Ejaz Butt to finish the practice of having paid selectors and appoint new ones on honorary basis," the official said. "The members felt when a selector was on the Board payroll there was the likelihood of a conflict of interest (with other officials). "They suggested that in future selectors be appointed on honorary basis but be given stipends, daily allowances and other perks as admissible under board rules," he added. He said it was also decided that in future there would be only one national selection committee which would pick all teams and that the governing council members were not happy with the working of former chief selector Abdul Qadir. A number of candidates are being tipped to be appointed on the new committee with names of former Test players Aamer Sohail, Haroon Rasheed, Saleem Yousuf and Basit Ali doing round.