DHAKA: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday named world famous allrounder Shahid Afridi as its T20 captain until the ICC T20 World Cup 2016.

However, Misbah-ul-Haq has been retained as captain for ODIs and Tests until the 2015 World Cup.

Pakistan has three T20 matches lined-up in the upcoming series against Australia and New Zealand.

"In line with my policy of taking decisions democratically I consulted the Cricket Committee and my board members before announcing these decisions," PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan said, dawn.com reports.

"I wish both Afridi and Misbah very good luck in their upcoming assignments."

According to sources, the PCB chairman had taken all the Governing Board members into confidence over the decisions with the exception of Najam Sethi who is not in Pakistan.

For the last many months, the 34-year-old Afridi, in his comments to the media, had been expressing the desire to captain Pakistan once again.

BDST: 1728 HRS, SEP 16, 2014