Pakistan Cricket Board has so far signed sponsorship deals worth USD 22 million for the forthcoming Indian cricket team's tour, its chairman Shaharyar Khan said on Friday.
"The board has so far signed USD 22 million sponsorship deals for the India-Pakistan series and this money would be spent on strengthening the domestic circuit," Khan said in an interactive programme on a Pakistan local TV channel.
"This money will also be distributed among the associations to make them strong like the Indian organisations," he said.
Khan said PCB should shun its ad hoc ways and work under well established professional norms.
"Though I am also an ad hoc chairman, I want Pakistan cricket to run on proper lines. We need to complete short and long term plans.
"The short term plan is the successful hosting of the India-Pakistan series and the long term plan is to streamline our domestic cricket, which will begin during the off season, and include domestic structuring, reviving of cricket at school and institutional level and development of infrastructure."
Khan, who was appointed the Chairman of the PCB by President Pervez Musharraf after the resignation of Gen Tauqir Zia, said he had wanted legendary paceman Wasim Akram to continue for some more time, but now that he had retired, the Board was looking into ways to acquire his services as a coach.
