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Pakistan Cricket Board Appoints Haroon Rasheed As Chief Selector

Pakistan’s former batter Haroon Rasheed has been appointed as the chief selector of the national selection committee. Najam Sethi, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), told reporters in Lahore on Monday that Haroon will be heading the new selection committee but the remaining members would be decided later. Haroon, 69, was also named on the 14-member cricket management committee to run the PCB, on December 22, by the patron-in-chief of the board, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif. “Haroon has now resigned from the management committee as we don’t want a conflict of interest as he is now chief selector,” Sethi said. Haroon who played 23 Tests and 12 ODIs for Pakistan had retired as Director of the High Performance Centre of the PCB last year. He has held many other positions in the board including chief selector, manager of senior and junior teams and also head coach of senior and junior teams. The cricket management committee had named Shahid Afridi as interim chief selector soon after coming into power, and Sethi had wanted him …