Ali quits as Pak cricket manager
Saturday, 18 October 2008
ISLAMABAD, OCT 17 (AP): Talat Ali quit Friday as manager of the Pakistan national cricket team.
"I have no regrets as I wanted to make way for the new chairman to bring in his own team," 58-year-old Ali told the news agency.
Ali has been the team manager since the 2006 Champions Trophy in India and his contract with the Pakistan Cricket Board was to run until next April.
Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan and also patron-in-chief of the national cricket board, appointed former Test wicketkeeper Ijaz Butt as the new chairman of the PCB earlier this month.
"I haven't spoken to Butt, but I feel it's the right time to leave the job and make way for some other person," Ali said. "I have sent my resignation to the cricket board's office in Lahore."
Ali played 10 Test matches for Pakistan before retiring in 1979.
"I have no regrets as I wanted to make way for the new chairman to bring in his own team," 58-year-old Ali told the news agency.
Ali has been the team manager since the 2006 Champions Trophy in India and his contract with the Pakistan Cricket Board was to run until next April.
Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan and also patron-in-chief of the national cricket board, appointed former Test wicketkeeper Ijaz Butt as the new chairman of the PCB earlier this month.
"I haven't spoken to Butt, but I feel it's the right time to leave the job and make way for some other person," Ali said. "I have sent my resignation to the cricket board's office in Lahore."
Ali played 10 Test matches for Pakistan before retiring in 1979.