{"id":1108,"date":"2021-09-29T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:26:32","slug":"pakistan-cricket-board-ceo-wasim-khan-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-cricket-board-ceo-wasim-khan-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Cricket Board CEO Wasim Khan steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board of Governors of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday &#8220;unanimously accepted&#8221; the resignation of chief executive Wasim Khan, the local media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan had joined PCB on a three year contract in February last year. The resignation tendered by him on Wednesday has been accepted by PCB\u2019s Board of Governors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his statement following his resignation, Khan said it was an honour to serve the PCB, adding that &#8220;it was hugely satisfying to see Sri Lanka playing Tests in Rawalpindi and Karachi, and the homecoming of the PSL during the last two years,&#8221; the dawn reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan, who has done his Master\u2019s in Business Administration from Warwick Business School has been a professional cricketer. He has played county cricket in England from 1995 to 2001, during which he represented Warwickshire, Sussex and Derbyshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also played in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In a 58-match first-class career, Wasim scored 2,835 runs with five centuries and 17 half-centuries, with the highest score of 181.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Governors of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday &#8220;unanimously accepted&#8221; the resignation of chief executive Wasim Khan, the local media reported. Khan had joined PCB on a three year contract in February last year. The resignation tendered by him on Wednesday has been accepted by PCB\u2019s Board of Governors. In his [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[65,94,476],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pakistan","tag-pcb","tag-wasim-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}