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.