Changes are likely to be made to the seven-member PCB selection committee following Pakistan’s dismal performance in the T20 World Cup. The PCB will conduct an investigation to assess what went wrong for Pakistan, but it is understood that streamlining the selection committee’s operations is the committee’s top priority. ESPNcricinfo understands that the number of selection committee members will be reduced and the PCB is also considering abandoning its short-lived experiment of a selection committee with no formal representative or head.
However, Wahab is not expected to regain his position as chairman, even if the position is re-established. ESPNcricinfo understands there is unhappiness within the PCB, including from Wahab himself, over the public perception that Wahab is running the selection committee as a de facto chairman and has faced criticism as a result. It remains highly likely that Wahab will withdraw from the committee altogether, with Naqvi keen to show the public that no one is immune from adverse outcomes.
If no decision is made public by then, further changes to the domestic set-up could be signalled in the revision of players’ central contracts, which expire on June 30. The PCB and players agreed to three-year contracts in a landmark decision last year but that applies only to the blanket terms of the contract. Individual players can be moved up or down categories or left out completely depending on their performance. There are currently three players in the highest category – Babar, Mohammed Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi.
