Lahore: Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday hosted a farewell ceremony in honour of outgoing PCB Chairman Shaharyar M Khan at Gaddafi Stadium.
In the ceremony newly elected Chairman PCB’s Najam Sethi and office bearers of the PCB honoured the outgoing chairman and gave him a standing ovation.
Talking to the audience, Najam Sethi thanked Shaharyar Khan for his illustrious contribution to Pakistan cricket. He shed light on the illustrious career of Shaharyar Khan and mentioned his experience of working with the outgoing Chairman of the PCB. He noted how he and Shaharyar Khan had worked hard to bring forward the soft power of Pakistan’s cricket.
Khan, speaking on the occasion thanked Sethi and his senior management for their support to him in the last three years. He highlighted how he and the current PCB chairman had worked hard together in his tenure to take Pakistan cricket to a respectable stature. He lauded the PCB chairman and credited him for the successful hosting of PSL first and second edition, and second edition’s final in Lahore this year. He lauded the coaching staff performance, the selection committee behind the team’s recent victory in the ICC Champions Trophy. He was all praise for Sethi, and termed him the right man to take Pakistan cricket forward in the right direction. He conveyed his best wishes to the newly elected chairman and hoped he with his vision and efforts would bring back international cricket to Pakistan.
