MUMBAI: Greg Barclay, a director of New Zealand Cricket since 2012, and who is currently its nominee on the ICC board, could emerge as the compromise candidate for the post of chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Telegraph India reported that Barclay’s candidature could be acceptable to the Big Three — BCCI, Cricket Australia and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) — and the opposing body that includes Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), ICC’s interim chairman Imran Khwaja, Sri Lanka Cricket and Zimbabwe Cricket, among others.
The ICC board comprises the chairman, chief executive, 12 full-member directors, three associates and the independent director. The chief executive, however, doesn’t have a vote.
The process, which is being overseen by the independent chairman of the ICC Audit Committee, has commenced and the first stage is for the nominations of potential candidates to be made by current board directors by 18 October. Any nominee will then need to be seconded by another board director to become a candidate in the election.
As outlined in the ICC Constitution, to be eligible, potential candidates must be either a current or former ICC director.
