LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — Former diplomat Shaharyar Khan was yesterday elected Pakistan’s cricket chief for a three-year term, a move aimed at ending a 14-month leadership tussle which has left the governing body in disarray.

Khan, 80, becomes the 30th chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) but the only one to have a second tenure, having held the post between December 2003 to October 2006.

Khan was elected unopposed under the board’s new constitution, which was adopted last month in a bid to resolve the dispute triggered in May last year when then-chairman Zaka Ashraf was suspended by Islamabad high court.

After Ashraf’s suspension, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed veteran journalist Najam Sethi as PCB head. But court orders and government decrees saw Sethi swapping power with Ashraf five times.

The Supreme Court last month ordered elections under the new constitution and named a retired judge as interim PCB chief and election commissioner.

The PCB said in a statement that Khan was unanimously elected unopposed by the 10-member board of governors.

Khan said he wanted to bring some stability to the PCB after the months of turmoil.

“I took this post to end the musical chairs of the chairmen and to have continuity in cricketing affairs,” Khan told reporters.

Khan, who also served as the country’s foreign secretary between 1990-94, was appointed PCB head by military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, but was removed after the fiasco in the Oval Test against England in 2006.