Dubai: Mustafa Kamal, president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), is likely to become the president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2014. That is if he gets enough support from the ICC Executive Board members who meet in Dubai from tomorrow.
The ICC Executive Board will consider the nomination received from the BCB and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the next ICC vice-president's post. Whoever becomes the next vice-president will succeed New Zealand's Alan Isaac as the ICC president in 2014. Sharad Pawar, the current president's term, ends in June.
The BCB's board meeting has approved the nomination of Kamal to the ICC presidency. Zaka Ashraf, chairman of the PCB, is also backing Kamal for the prestigious post. As a token of appreciation for the support, Bangladesh has agreed to become the first nation to tour Pakistan and revive international cricket which had stalled since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore in 2009.
However, some of the leading ICC members want an end to the rotation policy among full members for the president's post once Isaac's term ends.
Among the major topics on the agenda of the ICC Executive Board is the Independent Governance Review done by Lord Woolf of Barnes and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The scope of the review includes ICC president nomination and election process to ensure that strategic goals are met effectively and that decisions are made in the best interests of the game.
The ICC Board will also consider a proposal to increase incentives in the form of prize money to promote Test match cricket.
