A new role: Moin Khan to ‘keep wickets’ as chief selector

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday appointed former Pakistan captain and wicketkeeper Moin Khan as chairman of the national selection committee.

Moin was appointed as the chief selector after a meeting with the interim chairman of PCB, Najam Sethi here at PCB headquarters.

The 41-year-old takes over from Iqbal Qasim, who stepped aside earlier this month in a move seen as a reaction to the team’s miserable performance in the Champions Trophy in England.

Sethi discussed the selector’s role with Moin and the former captain accepted the job.

“Former captain and wicket-keeper Khan will take over as chief selector while the rest of the members of the committee will remain the same,” a PCB release said.

Former left-arm paceman Salim Jaffer, Test batsman Azhar Khan, Farrukh Zaman and Asif Baloch are the other selectors.

Speaking on the occasion Moin said: “It is an honor and a privilege to be offered the position of chairman of national selection committee, a position held by many greats in the past and most recently by legendary Iqbal Qasim.

“I have accepted this as a challenge and I am glad that PCB and my own vision corresponds in terms of preparing a pool of talented cricketers who can mount an effective challenge in the 2015 World Cup.”

“It is an honour and a privilege to be offered the position of chairman of national selection committee – a position held by many greats in the past and most recently by legendary spinner Qasim,” he said.

Khan played 69 Tests and 219 one-day internationals for Pakistan in the 1990s and was a member of the World Cup winning team in 1992.

No tenure has been announced for Khan’s post under an interim PCB set-up which took over after chairman Zaka Ashraf was suspended due to complaints about his election in May this year.

Last week the Islamabad high court ordered Sethi to hold elections for the PCB chairman within 90 days.