Pakistan team manager Talat Ali resigned on Friday along with fellow selection committee member Shafqat Rana. Talat said he had stood down because he wanted to make it easier for new Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt to bring in his own management team.
"I had a long contract and I did my best but now I felt it was time to resign," Ali, who had nine months of a two-year deal left to run, told Reuters. Chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed resigned earlier this month in protest over a change made in the national team that played in a four nation Twenty20 tournament in Toronto without the approval of the selection committee.