The Pakistan Cricket Board is seeking to implement a regulation which forbids any participant’s agent or firm from signing greater than 2 to three gamers at one time for illustration. The cricket administration committee operating the Board affairs is anticipated to take a closing resolution on this regulation within the subsequent couple of days after two companies signed on dozens of Pakistani group gamers and officers for illustration. After realising that one agent, Talha Rehmani and his firm Saya Company represented 7-8 main Pakistani gamers and officers together with Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Muhammad Rizwan, PCB has now learnt that one other company often known as Worldwide Cricketers Affiliation (ICA) additionally has contracts with many gamers and officers presently touring Australia.
Involved with the event, PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf has directed the authorized division to border new set of rules for vetting brokers/corporations earlier than they signal on gamers and officers and proscribing the variety of purchasers they’ll have at one time in Pakistan cricket.
The ICA apparently has Sarfaraz Ahmed, Imam ul Haq, Saim Ayub, Muhammad Haris, Naseem Shah, Abdullah Shafique, Usama Mir, Aamer Jamal and Muhammad Hasnain on its purchasers record.
Extra importantly even the Pakistan group director, Muhammad Hafeez was working with ICA till lately.
Whereas Hafeez has resigned, it has now emerged that the nationwide group bowling coach Umar Gul, Spin bowling coach Saeed Ajmal, batting advisor Adam Hollioake and the group’s energy and conditioning coach and nationwide selector Kamran Akmal are additionally on the ICA clientele.
Zaka Ashraf every so often in his interviews has raised issues that one agent or firm having so many gamers beneath its umbrella mainly means it might yield quite a lot of affect and say within the group choice and affairs.
In a latest leaked audio dialog, Ashraf might be heard saying that when the PCB provided Babar Azam solely the Take a look at captaincy after the ODI World Cup, he referred to as up his agent Talha Rehman who suggested him to go away the captaincy in all three codecs.
“These brokers mainly have quite a lot of affect and energy within the group by means of their clientele and we are attempting to take care of that,” he was heard saying within the leaked audio.
The PCB had additionally accepted a resignation from Inzamam ul Haq as chief selector after it launched an inquiry into stories that the previous captain was an proprietor in a sports activities advertising and marketing firm with Rizwan and Rehmani as his companions.
The inquiry was to verify whether or not Inzamam’s affiliation with the corporate was a battle of curiosity as he was a paid worker of the board however the inquiry has fizzled out after the board mentioned it had accepted Inzamam’s resignation.
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