Pakistan Cricket Board to get control of two Stadiums
Pakistan Times Sports Desk

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will soon get control of two main cricket stadia in the Punjab province.

“The draft of MoU is being prepared and soon the PCB will sign a deed with the Punjab government to get control of Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad and Pindi Stadium, Rawalpindi to run the affairs” PCB Director Communication Dr Ahsan Malik told reporters in the weekly press briefing on Tuesday.

National Cricket Academy (NCA) Aaqib Javed also attended the briefing.

The director said that the PCB had started the restructuring of its management, on the recommendations of human resource company, and several posts had been advertised in the national dailies.

Moreover, the director said the implementation on another report submitted by an audit company, which audited the PCB’s accounts was yet to be finalised.

“PCB is expecting the new constitution of the PCB would be approved by its patron’s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf well before the stipulated time of Jan 31”, he said.

He said some delay had been made in this connection mainly because the attorney general was in Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj.

Now the attorney general was in Pakistan and the PCB chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf had met him. The attorney general had assured an early approval of the constitution to meet the stipulated date, he said.

“The new constitution would be placed on the official website of the board”,he added.

Meanwhile, former Test medium-pace bowler Aqib said he was ready to work with Shoaib Akhtar, if the later needed any assistance from him.

“Unfit Shoaib is returning back home along with Umar Gul from South Africa on tomorrow,Wednesday”,he added.

Aaqib said fast bowlers were injury prone throughout the world and though Shoaib had little more problems in this connection, he was a national asset.

Aaqib had a claim that flaws of any player could be removed at any age and he would try to remove the flaws of Salman Butt, Imran Farhat and others.

He said the six more players, who were banned for suspect bowling action in the domestic cricket were improving their action in the NCA.

He said Pakistan Under-19 teams will be visiting Australia, England and Bangladesh this year and the NCA would have a focus on to prepare best possible team.●