Zaka Ashraf, CEO of PCB, will continue to serve until the end of the 2023 ODI World Cup.

Zaka Ashraf will continue to lead the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) until the end of the ODI World Cup in India, according to confirmation from Anwar ul Haq Kakar, the PCB’s patron and acting prime minister of Pakistan.

The current Zaka Ashraf-led interim management committee that is in charge of the board was supposed to end on November 5.

Inzamam-ul-Haq, who had since resigned as chief selector, and Babar Azam were named in a press release as the cause of a series of high-profile missteps, and the PCB’s future has been under scrutiny due to a controversy involving a leaked WhatsApp conversation between the captain and a senior official.

Members of the management committee, such as Mustafa Ramday and Zulfiqar Malik, have chastised Ashraf for his lack of initiative in arranging board elections and his poor decision-making. Malik sent the prime minister, Ashraf, and other committee members an email in October expressing his dissatisfaction of PCB actions. Mustafa Ramday has also voiced his discontent with the way the board has been run.

You are aware that a competition is currently underway. We will take care of this competition, attending to what needs to be done and what doesn’t. We won’t be making a major decision just yet, in my opinion. The doctrine of necessity must occasionally be followed, which is the rationale for that. After the World Cup, we’ll see,” Kakar said to Dawn News.

Coming into this weekend, the patron’s options were to either choose a new committee or prolong the term of the current one. That last one was selected. In his capacity as acting prime minister, Kakar is in charge of selecting the PCB’s chairman and is a patron of the organization.

Kakar mentioned two Pakistani rulings that are connected to the idea of necessity. Two rulings by the Chief Justice were issued in 1954 and 1977, respectively, allowing the use of emergency powers outside the constitution and authorizing a military takeover. Kakar spoke the day before Pakistan’s pivotal World Cup match in Bengaluru against New Zealand. Interestingly, a loss to the Kiwis would ensure Pakistan’s exit from the tournament.