LAHORE, Pakistan: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Saturday announced that Australian pitch expert Tony Hemming has resigned as its chief curator, stepping down just 13 months into a two-year contract.
Hemming, who joined the PCB in July 2024 after the departure of long-serving curator Agha Zahid, was responsible for preparing pitches for Pakistan’s ICC World Test Championship matches against Bangladesh and England last year, as well as the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025, hosted in Pakistan from 19 February to 9 March.
A PCB statement described Hemming as “a highly respected curator with nearly four decades of experience” who has worked at some of Australia’s most iconic cricket grounds, including in Melbourne, Perth and Tasmania.
He has also served in Bangladesh, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, where he was the ICC’s Head Curator in Dubai from 2007 to 2017.
During that tenure, he oversaw pitch preparations at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, which was one of Pakistan’s home venues between 2009 and 2019.
Sources, cited by local media, said that Hemming has been in discussions with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) about returning to a role there. He previously joined the PCB after his contract with the BCB expired.
Hemming succeeded Agha Zahid, who had been associated with the PCB’s curators’ committee since 2001 and served multiple terms as chief curator before stepping down in 2020, returning briefly in 2021 under then-chairman Ramiz Raja.
