The Pakistan Cricket Board has dissolved its powerful advisory body and decided to reconstitute its Selection Committee headed by former captain Wasim Bari.
PCB Media in-charge Khalid Bhat said in Islamabad on Tuesday that the Board had decided to dissolve the Advisory Committee in which influential former cricketers like Wasim Raja and Javed Miandad were members. While dissolving the Advisory Committee, PCB Chairman Tauqir Zia decided to appoint smaller committees in which Raja and Miandad would be given active roles, he said. Miandad was made an advisory committee member after he was sacked as team coach early this year. Bhat, however, denied reports that PCB has sacked the Selection Committee headed by Wasim Bari. He said the Selection Committee continued to function. But at the same time a decision has been made to appoint 'paid' selectors in future. They would be given an agreed fees for the services rendered by them, he said. The decisions follow Pakistan team's poor performance on the recently concluded England tour, during which the team managed to square the two Test series 1-1 and lost the triangular one day tournament to Australia in the final. Bureau Report