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Sana Mir excuses to join newly-appointed PCB committee

LAHORE: Pakistan Women’s team ex-captain Sana Mir has refused to become a member of the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) newly-appointed Management committee.

Taking to Twitter on Friday, Mir said she would not be able to participate in the committee, citing her preference to contribute as an independent voice in the Federation of International Cricketers Association (FICA) and through her commentary.

“It is very humbling to be named in the PCB mgmt com.I would like to express my gratitude to all decision makers & everyone around the world who congratulated me.For now,I’ll not be able to participate as I look fwd to contribute through my independent voice in FICA & thru comm.” she wrote.

 

Mir was part of a 14-member PCB committee constituted on Thursday by the federal government to run the affairs of the cricket board for the next 120 days. The government appointed Najam Sethi as the Chairman of the committee and interim head of the board after it repealed the 2019 PCB Consitution.

Besides Mir, the Sethi-led committee includes Shakil Sheikh (ex-PCB BoG), Gul Zada (ex-PCB BoG) Nauman Butt (ex-PCB BoG), ex-Test cricketers Haroon Rashid, Shahid Khan Afridi and Shafqat Rana Aized Syed (ex-PCB director NHPC), Tanvir Ahmed (ex-president Larkana Region), Advocate Supreme Court Mustafa Ramday and Chaudhry Arif Saeed (CEO Service Industries).

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