http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 plans to abolish rotation policy for appointments of president and vice-president
After weeks of hot debate at international cricket forums, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has finally decided to eliminate the rotation policy for the appointments of president and vice-president of the council. The policy created rift last year
when John Howard, an Australian nominee, was rejected by other nine member nations.
The rotation policy has been at work since the origin of the governing body. Under this policy, each of the ten full member cricketing nations has to nominate a person for the post of president that is selected or rejected with the majority vote of all other
members.
In 2007, the council amended the formula and created a post of vice-president. Now all ten countries have been divided in 5 pairs, each pair containing two members, which are supposed to present names of president and vice-president.
The ten member states are grouped as follows:
Australia-New Zealand, West Indies-England, India-Sri Lanka, Pakistan-Bangladesh and South Africa-Zimbabwe.
As http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 are set to nominate their candidates for president and vice-president respectively, some analysts argue that the duo will surely oppose the policy that is likely ti damage their interests.
The ICC intends to discuss and finalize the matter at its annual meeting that is due latter this month at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hong-Kong-c2919.
A report of ESPNCricinfo tells, “But ICC sources have confirmed that plans are underway to change this system. The main topic of discussion at an ICC governance committee meeting in Chennai last week was the rotation policy.”
The rotation policy came under criticism last year when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alan-Raymond-Isaac-c42771 for the posts of vice-president and president.
The other member nations voted against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Howard-c63371 and rejected him. This provoked the most powerful cricketing nation to launch full-fledged opposition against the policy that, they considered, to be discriminatory.
The global cricket governing body is taking radical steps to revolutionize the game. The developments like floodlight Tests, change in ODI and T20 formats, Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) and ouster of minnows from World Cup are few examples to be cited
in this regard.
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