{"id":7610,"date":"2023-10-31T00:12:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=367999"},"modified":"2023-10-31T00:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:42:50","slug":"inzamam-ul-haq-resigns-as-chief-selector-amid-world-cup-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/inzamam-ul-haq-resigns-as-chief-selector-amid-world-cup-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Inzamam-ul-Haq Resigns as Chief Selector Amid World Cup Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst Pakistan\u2019s rollercoaster journey in the ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2023, Inzamam-ul-Haq, the team\u2019s chief selector, has voluntarily stepped down from his position.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, with a record of two wins and four losses in the initial six matches, find themselves on the fringes of the semi-final race.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprising turn of events, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced Inzamam\u2019s immediate departure, pending an internal inquiry into alleged conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Inzamam-ul-Haq has resigned as the chairman of the national men's selection committee and junior selection committee. He was appointed as the chairman of the national men's committee on 7 August 2023 and was also appointed chairman of the junior men's selection committee earlier\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PCB Media (@TheRealPCBMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCBMedia\/status\/1718992354005360727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Inzamam, aged 53, emphasized his decision as an opportunity for a transparent investigation, stating, \u201cI am stepping down from the post to offer the PCB the opportunity to conduct a transparent inquiry about the conflict of interest allegations raised in the media. If the committee finds me not guilty, I will resume my role as the chief selector.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst Pakistan\u2019s rollercoaster journey in the ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2023, Inzamam-ul-Haq, the team\u2019s chief selector, has voluntarily stepped\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":30510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1549,3424,1015,340],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-inzamam-ul-haq","tag-pakistan","tag-pcb","tag-world-cup"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}