Former Pakistan captain Intikhab Alam has urged the country's cricket board to appoint a new chairman “as soon as possible” to salvage the national team's international season. “It's been almost a month now that the Pakistan Cricket Board is without a chairman, it's absolutely imperative for the president to announce the chairman as soon as possible,” Alam said Monday. Nasim Ashraf stood down as PCB chairman on Aug. 18 - hours after the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, who was also the patron of the PCB. New president Asif Ali Zardari, now patron of the PCB, is yet to decide on who will replace Ashraf and there has been little speculation on prospective candidates in the domestic media. “Whosoever is appointed, he must have some experience and a recognizable figure in the cricketing fraternity,” Alam advised. “It will save precious time of getting along with the officials of other cricket boards.”
