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MUMBAI: South African Percy Sonn's reign as International
Cricket Council president will continue for a third year after
the game's global governing body failed remained deadlocked
over the choice of his successor.
The ICC nominations committee, which met to consider the
candidatures of the Indian board president Sharad Pawar against
that of the England cricket board chief David Morgan, finally
elected not to make any recommendation regarding Sonn’s
successor.
The standard term for an ICC chief is two years but three of
Sonn's predecessors - Jagmohan Dalmiya, Malcolm Gray and Ehsan
Mani - have served a third year as president.
The nominations committee consisted of Dr AC Muthiah (chairman)
(representing India and Sri Lanka), Bob Merriman (Australia
and New Zealand), Mueen Afzal (Bangladesh and Pakistan), Stephen
Camacho (West Indies and England), John Blair (South Africa
and Zimbabwe) and Imran Khwaja (Associates and Affiliates).
By current reckonings, Pawar got the vote of India-Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh-Pakistan and the associate & affiliate countries.
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