Reports | ICC set for a fourth shake-up in space of seven years

Reports | ICC set for a fourth shake-up in space of seven years

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) is set for a fourth attempt to shake-up the way the game is governed in the space of seven years. It is understood that Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings has commissioned by the ICC chairman Shashank Manohar to lead a review of the board’s governance. 

An independent review into governance was commissioned by the then ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat and helmed by Lord Woolf in 2012 after the failed attempt to have John Howard — the presidential nominee from Cricket Australia (CA) and New Zealand Cricket (NZC). Woolf’s findings were outright rejected by the BCCI, who along with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and CA, set about building a different system in which the game's richest nations took the lion's share of its key financial and strategic decisions. 

Manohar’s ascension to the position of independent chairman of the ICC came after N Srinivasan was brought by the corruption charges in the IPL and, in particular, the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) — the franchise owned by him. This brought a third change, rolling back many of the Big Three changes, though retaining a larger share of ICC event revenue for India.

According to ESPNCricinfo’s report, Manohar's decision to commission the review again may be a signal that he intends to push for another term as the ICC's independent chairman. No date has been set for its completion yet, but it is likely that Edding and Co will present at least an interim report on a fresh vision for the game's decision-making by the time of the next ICC annual conference in June 2020. 

The committee will also include Greg Barclay (New Zealand Cricket), Tony Brian (Cricket Scotland), Ehsan Mani (Pakistan Cricket Board), Chris Nenzani (Cricket South Africa) and Ricky Skerritt (Cricket West Indies), but there is believed to be scope to add other members to the group. The review will look into the composition of the executive board of the ICC, the need to introduce more women to the game's highest level of decision making — Indra Nooyi being the single independent female board director in  the past year and was recently re-elected for another two years — and a desire to adopt more professional governance practices across the ICC. 

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