He was the chairman of the Indian cricket board's statistical committee for a few years from 1973.
Haq was later involved in the creation of the Indian cricket board.
The cricket board had ruled out other venues reportedly due to bad weather.
Below is the history of the regions of certain cricket boards in the country.
It is made up of officials nominated from each of the ten Test playing cricket boards.
He had been invited to attend the Test trials by the Indian cricket board in 1931.
He was a leading light in the Jamaican cricket board of control from its establishment in 1926.
He became a Cricket Board of Wales director in 2005.
The then sports minister referred to the cricket board under Ranatunga as "the third most corrupt institution in the country".
Each nation has a national cricket board which regulates cricket matches played in its country.
