Pakistan cricket great Javed Miandad has added weight to calls for a change to the Pakistan Cricket Board hierarchy, describing chairman Ijaz Butt as “too old” for the position in a letter to the country's president. “The chairman has become too old for the position he is holding as he seldom remembers his own important official commitments and agreements,” Miandad, who is also a PCB director general, wrote in a letter to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari obtained by The Associated Press Tuesday. President Ali Zardari is also the patron of the PCB and was responsible for appointing the 71-year-old Butt as chairman in Oct. 2008 in place of Nasim Ashraf. Miandad also said he was not happy with the working style of the PCB chief. “Most of the staff working under the chairman, including many directors, are fed up with his style of working; evidence of which is that many directors have left their jobs during his tenure,” Miandad wrote. Miandad's scathing assessment comes as the Pakistan team goes through one of its worst playing periods. “Pakistan cricket is in real bad shape and the whole nation is looking toward me to be the savior of their favorite sport,” Miandad said. “But unfortunately the chairman PCB is not willing to take me along and he has sidelined me for reasons only known to him.”
