The International Cricket Council (ICC) board has unanimously approved a recommendation for Cricket South Africa (CSA) to nominate an acting president following the death of Percy Sonn last month.
The nominee, once approved, will assume the role of acting president until the ICC’s annual conference of 2008.
The Governance Review Committee (GRC), following its meeting in Cape Town on Friday, made the recommendation and it has been unanimously approved by the ICC board.
The GRC, made up of Cricket Australia chairperson Creagh O’Connor (chairperson of the GRC), Peter Chingoka (chairperson of Zimbabwe Cricket), HRH Tunku Imran (president of Malaysian Cricket Association and an associate member representative on the ICC board) and Malcolm Speed (ICC chief executive) reviewed both the current ICC constitution and the one under which Percy Sonn was nominated as ICC president.
The ICC board will now wait for CSA to makes its nomination. Once the nomination is received, it will go back before the board for final approval.
The acting president will exercise all the powers and duties of the president while in office and his taking the role does not prejudice his chances of being appointed ICC president in the future.
Speed said: ”I am delighted the ICC board has unanimously endorsed the GRC’s decision to ask CSA to nominate the acting president.
It is appropriate that CSA should make this nomination and I have no doubt that it will put forward a worthy successor to Percy Sonn, who served the ICC so well during his time in office.” — Sapa