England and Wales Cricket Board Chairman David Morgan is set to take over
as next President of the International Cricket Council in 2008, according
to BBC.
A formal announcement to this effect is expected later in the week as ICC officials
are holding a series of meetings here ahead of the ICC's Annual Conference at
Lord's on Friday.
Morgan will succeed acting ICC President Ray Mali till 2010
after a compromise deal struck with BCCI President Sharad Pawar, his only rival
for the top post of the world governing body, that the two would hold the hot
seat when England and India host major cricketing events.
England will host Twenty20 World Championships in 2009 while
India will co-host the 2011 World Cup along with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
"Both of them will become vice-president, in effect president
elect," BBC said.
The nominations of both Pawar and Morgan were not put forward
by an ICC Committee as neither of the two had requisite two-third of the majority
in February as a result of which Percy Sonn's tenure was extended till 2009.
But when Mali was appointed following Sonn's death in May,
the search for a compromise was stepped up with a view to a permanent replacement
taking over next year.
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