MUMBAI: Shashank Manohar, the first independent chairman of the International Cricket Council, will NOT be running for a third two-year term when his tenure at the ICC ends in May 2020.
In a development that comes as no surprise, Manohar, who has been the independent chairman from June 2016, confirmed to The Hindu that he will bring an end to his office at the ICC annual conference at Cape Town in July next year.
“I am not interested in continuing for another two-year term. Majority of directors have requested me to continue but I have told them that I do not wish to,” Manohar told the daily.
Manohar, who was elected unopposed on a two-year term as the global governing body’s first independent chairman in May 2016, resigned for personal reasons in March the following year only to defer his resignation a week later.
He was re-elected unopposed in June 2018. “I have been the chairman for nearly five years. I am very clear, I do not want to continue from June 2020. My successor will be known next May. He has to be elected in May to take charge after me at the annual conference,” said Manohar.
The BCCI under the new dispensation is yet to inform the ICC about its nominee (director and alternate director) to the ICC board. It has named board secretary Jay Shah, son of Union home minister Amit Shah, to the ICC chief executive committee.
