An interim chairman will represent the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) at the annual International Cricket Council meet later this month after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) upheld the suspension of Zaka Ashraf in the second hearing of the petition filed by the Rawalpindi Cricket Association against the board's elections that were held in May.
Ashraf was elected as the PCB chairman last month in what were the first ever elections to select the head of the cricket board. The elections, dubbed by many local associations as “unfair”, were part of the new constitution that replaced the system of appointing the chairman by the patron of the board, the president of Pakistan.
The IHC, in the inaugural hearing last month, suspended Ashraf from “exercising his power within his incumbency” due to what it called the “dubious” and “polluted” process to elect him.
The detailed order of the hearing is likely to be issued later today. The next hearing on the issue will be on June 19.