Alan Isaac will replace http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sharadchandra-Govindrao-Pawar-c89751 as ICC President - Cricket News Update
New Zealand’s Alan Isaac will take charge at the highest cricket governing body’s five-day annual conference starting next week as the two-year term of current International Cricket Council (ICC) President Sharad Pawar comes to an end.
The ICC confirmed this in a statement. "Mr Isaac will take over as ICC president from Sharad Pawar, who completes his two-year term at the end of the week."
The meeting is scheduled to be held on Jun 28, amendments to the ICC Articles will seek approval from the ICC Council to create the post of chairman from June 2014. During the meeting, the Council will also appoint the new ICC chief executive, with South
African David http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719.
Furthermore, the governing body Board will also have its three representative elected by the ICC Associate and Affiliate Members during their meeting on June 25.
Despite being third-in-line to lead the organisation, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Howard-c63371 was the leading nominee for the role, but his nomination
was rejected by the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 after strong opposition from the Asian and African blocs in the ICC board.
The game’s governing body directed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Anderson-c67288 refused to step in.
Isaac was born in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wellington-c864 in 1952 and was a former chairman of KPMG where he served for 35 years. He had a long association with cricket and represented his city as a left-handed batsman. Later, he remained a New Zealand Cricket Board member for 18 years.
He held a number of senior positions in various sporting organizations, health, business, community and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 Red Cross Foundation. In 2011, he backed BCCI over its controversial stance of not using the Decision Review System (DRS) and reportedly,
said that BCCI was right about many issues.
The new President will have to take care of many issues concerning the cricketing world today, foremost, is the spot-fixing scandal which has recently resurged with the convictions of former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danish-Kaneria-c1314. He also has
to address the controversies surrounding the use of technology, the rules of game, T20 and the unpopularity of One Day Internationals (ODIs) at an alarming rate.
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