Former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman and cousin of former Indian cricket crew captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Shaharyar Khan, died on the age of 89 after battling a protracted sickness on Saturday. The Bhopal-born Pakistan diplomat was essential in restoring cricket ties with India within the early 2000s.

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Shaharyar Khan led important developments in PCB from 2003 to 2006. Importantly it was throughout his management at PCB, when India toured Pakistan twice. He additionally served his subsequent time period as PCB chairman from 2014 to 2017. He was Pakistan’s international secretary between 1990-94 and a High Commissioner in New Delhi and the United Kingdom.

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Shaharyar Khan’s greatest remorse of not with the ability to revive bilateral Test cricket ties between India-Pak

During Pakistan cricket crew’s 1999 tour of India and the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he labored as Pakistan crew supervisor. Despite belonging to Bhopal’s royal household of Nawabs, Shaharyar Khan selected to dwell in Pakistan after partition.

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He authored a number of books on his experiences in international relations and cricket. In considered one of his interviews, Shaharyar, expressed his remorse of not with the ability to revive common bilateral Test cricket ties with India throughout his final tenure as PCB chief, reported PTI. The check collection was suspended between the nation in 2007, because of the tense relations between the 2 neighbours.

In 2013, Shaharyar M Khan, met then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh because the particular envoy of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. During his assembly with PM Manmohan Singh, Khan conveyed Pakistan’s want to maneuver forward on peace talks with India.

One of the largest controversies throughout his tenure as PCB chairman was Pakistan forfeiting the Oval Test to England in 2006 for which he blamed the then captain, Inzamam-ul-Haq. Current PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi expressed his condolences over the passing away of Shaharyar.

“Pakistan Cricket will keep indebted to the late Shaharyar Khan for his commendable position as head of the board and for his providers within the progress and growth of the sport within the nation,” stated Naqvi.