BCCI secretary Jay Shah© AFP
All eyes will likely be on BCCI secretary Jay Shah in the course of the four-day ICC Annual Convention starting in Colombo on Friday, the place severe discussions may happen on when he’ll take over as president of the worldwide physique from New Zealand's Greg Barclay. The problem of losses of over USD 20 million incurred by the worldwide physique for internet hosting T20 World Cup video games in the USA is predicted to dominate the ICC Convention that begins with the Board assembly on Friday.
Although the nine-point agenda of the AGM (a replica of which is with PTI) doesn’t embrace monetary particulars of the occasion, it is going to be mentioned by the board as a “post-event report”, which is a typical working process.
The appointment of the brand new exterior auditor of the ICC may also be mentioned, in addition to ICC membership, the report of the Affiliate Members Assembly and the ICC Improvement Awards presentation.
The opposite essential difficulty – India not travelling to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy – will not be a part of the official agenda of the ICC Board except it’s introduced up beneath “some other enterprise” with the permission of the chairman.
Nevertheless, an ICC supply conscious of the developments mentioned the primary space of curiosity for everybody within the ICC is when Shah will take over the reins of the world physique.
“It isn’t a query of how however when, as he nonetheless has one 12 months left as BCCI secretary after which his cooling off interval within the Indian board will begin in 2025 as per the structure. Nevertheless, if he’s to take over in 2025, Barclay won’t be able to finish his third time period of two years from December 2024 to December 2026,” the ICC supply mentioned.
“One college of thought is what would occur if the time period of the ICC presidency was modified from three phrases of two years every to 2 phrases of three years every, making the cumulative time period six years.”
It’s believed that if Barclay's present time period of three years is accomplished, Shah can full his six years as BCCI secretary and take over as ICC chairman in 2025. After this, he’ll begin working in BCCI for 3 years. Then in 2028, he can come again and take over as board president.
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