Ijaz Butt is going to be the new chairman the decision is expected to be made official in the next 24 hours, the guy is a former test player and has been very active in PCB he is a cousin of Ch Ahmed Mukhtar.

Federal Sports Minister Najamuddin Khan had announced on Tuesday that ad hoc will be imposed on PCB with aims to prepare a new constitution of the Board as well as to audit the accounts.

However, well-informed sources told Dawn that the government, fearing backlash from cricketing circles over imposing ad hoc in a democratic set-up, was more inclined to continue with the same PCB set-up with only a new chairman in place.

A former Test cricketer and director of a leading business group ( Sevice Industries which is owned By Ahmed Mukhtar) in the country, Ijaz Butt is a member of the PCB Governing Board and is an experienced official with a clean reputation. His appointment, if made, will be in line with the demands of several former cricketers like Javed Miandad, Zaheer Abbas and Abdul Qadir who have requested the government to bring in a former Test player as PCB chief.

Cricinfo Profile:
Ijaz Butt was a dependable batsman and more than capable wicketkeeper who made his Test debut against West Indies in 1958-59 as an opener, scoring 41 not out in a ten-wicket win. The following winter he played twice against Australia, making his only half-century at Karachi. In England in 1962 he struggled for form in the three Tests he played, although overall he scored 1016 runs at 28.22 including a hundred before lunch against Kent.