Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who is also the Patron-in-Chief of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), has nominated Zaka Ashraf and Mustafa Ramday for inclusion in the Board of Governors (BoG).
Ashraf, who remained the PCB chairman in the last government of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), is most likely to take up the elite post once again.
With the nomination of Ashraf and Ramday, the BoG's 10 members have been completed. Apart from Ashraf and Ramday, four representatives each from cricket associations and departments will sit in the BoG.
The chief election commissioner will now call for the election which is likely to take place later this week.
Earlier today, Najam Sethi, who was appointed as the head of the PCB management committee, confirmed that he is no longer in the race to become the PCB chairman.
The 75-year-old, while sharing an update in a tweet, said that he doesn't want to be a "bone of contention" between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and PPP co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
Meanwhile, Federal Minister for IPC Ehsan Ur Rehman Mazari had reiterated that Ashraf, who has the backing of the PPP leadership, will become the next chairman of the PCB.
Mazari, while speaking in a local television show, said Sethi's mandate, being the head of the management committee, was only to conduct free and fair elections in regions.
"Najam Sethi came to temporarily head the interim management committee and only had one mandate to conduct elections in the cricket regions," he said.
PPP's stance on the matter is that since its minister heads the IPC Division and PCB is related to the ministry, its chairman should be appointed by the party.
In December last year, PM Shehbaz appointed the 14-member committee to reinforce the 2014 constitution, bringing back departmental cricket.
Initially, 120 days were given to the committee to restore the 2014 constitution. However, a two-month extension was given to Sethi and company which ends on June 21.
Atique ur Rehman Atique ur Rehman is a senior reporter for Geo News.