Achieved 85pc task to put PCB and cricket on right direction: Ehsan Mani

Dunya News

Mani said that international cricket will return to Pakistan later this year

LAHORE (APP) – Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani said on Thursday that 85 percent task on his agenda to make the PCB a professional organisation through quality management and governance and to make domestic cricket tough and competitive besides forwarding recommendations in the PCB constitution to the quarters concerned has been achieved, which will help make the PCB a role model organisation in due course of time.

Talking to media at Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday, he said, “During my almost nine months in office, I have done my best to introduce a new culture of quality management, besides making recommendations in the PCB constitution to bring overall improvement in domestic cricket and in the organisational set-up of the PCB.”


International cricket to resume soon


Later, Mani said that international cricket will return to Pakistan later this year when the country will be hosting the matches of the Asian test championship against Sri Lanka in September this year and Bangladesh in January/February next year.

“These are very good news for Pakistan cricket and it will herald the resumption of international cricket in Pakistan.”

The PCB chairman said that the ICC test championship is spanned over two years and will end in year 2021.

“We will host Lankan team for two test matches of this inaugural edition of the event in September then our team will be flying to Australia in October/November for one day and night and one day test of the championship,” he said.