Pakistan to elect new cricket chief after Sethi ousted

ISLAMABAD, July 10 (AFP): Pakistan cricket's administration crisis took a fresh turn Thursday after Najam Sethi was removed as chief of Pakistan Cricket Board for the third time and former judge Jamshed Ali Shah was installed as interim chief.

The latest decision came from prime minister Nawaz Sharif, also a patron of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

"After the approval of the PCB constitution by the honourable patron, the ministry of Inter-provincial committee, has notified that a new election commissioner will hold elections as an interim PCB chief within 30 days," Irfanullah Khan, lawyer for government's Inter-provincial committee, told the news agency.

Khan said the decision meant the PCB Interim Management Committee and its head Sethi would be removed.