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\nPakistan cricket team\u2019s former captain and Test cricketer Azhar Ali is likely to get an important position in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), sources told Geo News on Friday.
\nAccording to sources, 39-year-old Azhar might be given the responsibility in the selection committee or high-performance centre of the cricketing body.
\nPCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi is in favour of taking benefit from the former cricketer\u2019s experience.
\nThe batter announced retirement from Test cricket in 2022 after playing his last series against England.
\nThe 37-year-old made his debut in 2010 in England against Australia at Lord\u2019s and scored his maiden Test half-century in only his second match.
\nHe scored 34 more half-centuries and went past the 100-run mark on 19 instances.
\nAzhar, one of the most successful batters in the country, scored 7,097 runs in 96 matches at an average of 42.49.
\nAmong his accolades, Azhar is the only Pakistan batter to score a triple-century in a pink-ball Test. He had achieved the feat against the West Indies at Dubai in 2016. That unbeaten 302 remains his highest score in Test cricket.
\nAzhar captained Pakistan in nine Tests in two separate tenures from 2016 to 2020.
\nThe batter had also already retired from One-Day Internationals in 2018 \u2013 a year after helping Pakistan win the ICC Champions Trophy 2017.
\nRehan-ul-Haq likely to become team manager
\nMeanwhile, former team manager, Rehan-ul-Haq, is also expected to hold the position once again, added the sources.
\nRehan-ul-Haq was appointed as the team manager under Najam Sethi\u2019s chairmanship.
\n\u201cRehan-ul-Haq will soon take over his duties in the Pakistan team,\u201d claimed the sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
islamabad Pakistan cricket team\u2019s former captain and Test cricketer Azhar Ali is likely to get an important position in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), sources told Geo News on Friday. According to sources, 39-year-old Azhar might be given the responsibility in the selection committee or high-performance centre of the cricketing body. PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61711,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61699\/revisions\/61711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}