Pakistan Cricket Board plans to restore old domestic structure

• 19 departments confirmed participation in season 2023–24.
• PCB has received registration requests from 12 new departments.
• PCB is confident in their ability to fully restore.

The 19 departments that were involved in the domestic season 2018–19 have confirmed their participation in the following season 2023–24, according to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

19 old departments are prepared to compete in the domestic season this year, the PCB management committee was informed at a high-profile meeting on Monday in Lahore.

These divisions include Khayaban-e-Amin, NBP, ODGCL, PAF, Pak Saudi International, Pakistan Customs, PTV, Sabir’s Poultry, SNGPL, SSGC, State Bank of Pakistan, and WAPDA. Ahmed Glass, Ghani Glass, Haider Traders, and Haider Glass are also included.

Nonetheless, the PCB has received registration requests from 12 new departments. Aryan Marketing Services, Commoners’ Development (Pvt) Ltd, Defence & Strategic Ventures (DSV), Eshaal Association, JDW Sugar Mills Ltd, K&H Traders, NICON Group of Colleges, Pak PWD, Punjab Police, Rahat & Shuja Impex, and RMS Global Corp. are among the departments on the list of interested parties.

The management team of PCB is confident in their ability to fully restore the previous domestic season framework. According to the 2014 constitution, the management committee, led by its chairman Najam Sethi, was tasked with restoring the former domestic structure within 90 days.

Moreover, during the most recent management committee meeting, youth cricket tours were also brought up.

“The management committee has approved the upcoming youth cricket tours, which will see Pakistan U19 touring Bangladesh in May for a four-dayer, five 50-over matches and one T20, and Pakistan Shaheens visiting Zimbabwe for a series of four-dayers and 50-over matches. The Management Committee was also informed an ACC Emerging Cup was scheduled in Sri Lanka in June/July. Further details on these tours will be shared in due course,” a PCB statement read.

The PCB’s president-in-chief, PM Shehbaz Sharif, named Sethi and the organisation to the board’s management committee. The plan was to rebuild the outdated cricket facility that Imran Khan, a former cricketer and country’s former prime, had destroyed.

Khan selected Ehsan Mani as the new PCB chairman after becoming the nation’s PM in 2018 and gave him the order to repeal the 2014 constitution and replace it with a new constitution that mandated a new domestic cricket system with only six regions.

As a result, many players were compelled to take up additional jobs to make ends meet after losing their positions in departments.

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