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Asia Cup’s official broadcaster Star Sports Friday announced a 19-member commentators’ panel for the upcoming tournament.
The panel included four former cricketers from host Pakistan and ten from India.
However, legendary Pakistan cricket captain and commentator Ramiz Raja was not included in the commentators’ panel for the upcoming series.
The commentary panel from Pakistan included Bazid Khan, Aamer Sohail, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis whereas Ravi Shastri, Andy Flower and Matthew Hayden among others were prominent names that would be commentating during the Asia Cup.
It must be noted that the Asian Cricket Council has not yet published the commentators’ names on its website.
Raja was away from the commentary box since September 2021, when he was elected as the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for a period of three years. He returned as a commentator during the Test series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka last month.
Raja, along with other PCB members, was removed from the post after just one year and was replaced by a 14-member management committee led by Najam Sethi.
He was only the fourth former Pakistan international cricketer to lead the PCB after Abdul Hafeez Kardar (1972-1977), Javed Burki (1994-1995) and Ijaz Butt (2008-2011).
The former cricket legend was Pakistan’s 18th Test and 12th ODI captain and featured in 255 international matches in which he accumulated 8,674 runs from 1984 to 1997.
