The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed four new voting members to the men's selection committee: Aleem Dar, Aaqib Javed, Azhar Ali, and Hasan Cheema.

This comes ten days after Mohammad Yousuf resigned from the panel. The appointments are the latest "recomposition" in the ever-changing selection committee, which has been tweaked many times this year and will no longer include coaches in the squad selection process.

While Asad Shafiq and Cheema were already members of the selection committee, Cheema has now been granted voting privileges.

“The Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed that the following members have been added to the men’s national selection committee as voting members: Aleem Dar, Aqib Javed, Azhar Ali and Hassan Cheema,” PCB statement read.

The selection panel was revised just earlier this year after Wahab Riaz and Abdul Razzaq were sacked post Pakistan’s poor T20 World Cup 2024 performance. Yousuf's resignation at the end of last month was likewise met with no successor, leaving Shafiq as the only voting member other than the captains and coaches.

The appointment of the new voting members came just a few hours after Pakistan's innings-and-47-run defeat to England in the first Test in Multan, making them the first team in Test history to lose by an innings after scoring over 550 on the first attempt.

This loss to England has resulted in Pakistan slipping to the bottom of the WTC 2025 points table with only 16 points to their name.