PCB chairman Ehsan Mani to head key ICC post

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani has been appointed as the Chairperson of the ICC’s Financial and Commercial Affairs Committee (F&CA).

The F&CA is one of ICC’s most important committees that assists the organisation in discharging its responsibilities in relation to all financial and commercial matters relating to and concerning it.

This would be Mani’s second stint as the chairman of this ICC’s committee as he was the ICC’s first-ever F&CA Chairman in 1996 and served until 2002. During his team he lead the ICC to sign its first-ever commercial deal worth approximately $550m.

“I am grateful to the ICC Chairman for the confidence he has reposed in me and look forward to working with Manu Sawhney and his team,” said Mani, quoted PCB.

Mani has also been included in the ICC Audit Committee, which will be chaired by India’s Yuvraj Narayan.

In an another ICC appointment, PCB General Counsel, Barrister Salman Naseer, has been included in the ICC’s Safeguarding Panel, which has been set-up to ensure implementation of the ICC Safeguarding Regulations and protection of the welfare of any person(s) engaged in activities in connection with an ICC Event (including Players, Player Support Personnel and others).

During the ICC Annual Conference, PCB Managing Director Wasim Khan and star woman cricketer Sana Mir were named in the ICC Women’s Committee as Full Member and Current Player Representatives, respectively.