Chishty Mujahid on Wednesday took over as the new Director, Pakistan Cricket board. He was briefed by the relevant officials about the working of the board and notably about the cricket operations, development programme and the administration.

Mr. Chishty Mujahid brings with him a wealth of administrative and cricketing knowledge and experience.

An authoritative cricket commentator, he read law at Cambridge. His love for the game began when he played at club level as a right-hand batsman and right-arm leg spin bowler. A frequent visitor to Tests in England during his student days in the late 1960s, he became a commentator renowned for being both articulate and knowledgeable. With Radio Pakistan he has toured Sri Lanka, India, Australia, South Africa, England and New Zealand. He has worked in high profile job in various national and International companies.

Chishty Mujahid is a well known figure in Pakistani cricket journalism and broadcasting. Born 1944 in New Delhi, India. He was educated at Karachi Grammar School, National College Karachi and Selwyn College Cambridge (Law Tripos 1966). He played cricket at school, college and club levels. He started Radio commentaries in 1967 and TV commentaries on Pakistan Television (PTV) in 1970. Mujahid has also commentated for and appeared on Doordarshan - India, Rupavahini, MTV & TNL - Sri Lanka Worldtel, TWI, Sony, South African Broadcasting Corp, CricInfo, BBC Urdu, Hum FM (UAE) and Yes FM. He has written on cricket for newspapers such as the Dawn, Frontier Post, Morning News, The News (all Pakistani English Dallies) for the World of Cricket and The Cricket Magazine (Pakistan), Khaleej Times (UAE). Mujahid wrote the commentart for a pictorial cricket biography of Imran Khan - "An Eye on Imran". He was nominated for the Best Sports Commentator award for PTV three years in a row 1985, 1986 and 1987. He won the award in 1986. He won the PBC (Radio Pakistan) best cricket commentator award for 1999 and 2001.


Khalid Butt
Media Manager
July 17, 2002

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