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Lahore, July 22 (ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has accepted Aamir Sohail’s resignation and appointed former Test cricketer Haroon Rashid as the new Director for Game Development.

“Aamir, director game development, has tendered his resignation and PCB chairman Ijaz Butt has accepted it. Former batsman Rashid will be the acting director game development with immediate effect,” The Daily Times quoted a PCB spokesperson, as saying.

Sohail, who submitted his papers on Monday, saying he was not getting ‘job satisfaction’ in the work he was assigned by the PCB.

“It has always been my principle in life that I have to achieve the task given to me. But while working with the PCB I wasn’t able to do that. There was no job satisfaction,” Sohail said.

He said he would once again be turning to the commentary box for a career.

However, PCB insiders said Sohail had developed serious differences with chairman Ijaz Butt which apparently is the prime reason behind his resignation.

Sohail, as director NCA and Game Development had forwarded several plans to the PCB, but the board’s reluctance to release funds for their implementation supposedly irked him.

Earlier, PCB’s Director Human Resource, Wasim Bari had issued a show cause notice to Sohail asking him to explain his absence from the ICC Development Course held in England recently.

“Aamir, who left a lucrative career as an expert cricket commentator to join the PCB as a director, was also not getting along with senior PCB officials including director-human resource Wasim Bari,” sources said. (ANI)