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  • ICC confirms resignation of Mustafa Kamal as president

    ICC confirms resignation of Mustafa Kamal as president

    MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed that Mustafa Kamal has tendered his resignation as the cricket body’s president with immediate effect.

     

    In his resignation letter to ICC chief executive David Richardson, Kamal said he was stepping down on personal grounds and offered his apologies to all associated with the ICC, while adding that he had no complaints to make against anyone.

     

    “Let the game of cricket under the leadership of ICC touch the hearts and minds of every cricket lover,” he wrote in his letter.

     

    The ICC Board will now consider the vacant position of the ICC president at its forthcoming meeting in Dubai on 15 and 16 April.

  • Deadlock means Sonn’s stays ICC president for another year

    Deadlock means Sonn’s stays ICC president for another year

    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.