The BCCI president Shashank Manohar, also the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), is scheduled to spend four days in Dubai from November 20 and will return on November 24, a day before the India-South Africa third Test at Nagpur.
During his stay in Dubai, Manohar will get opportunities to interact with the ICC chief executive David Richardson and other senior staff and also be briefed about the way ICC works. Manohar’s predecessor N. Srinivasan was largely assisted by Sundar Raman, who recently resigned as COO, IPL.
The 58-year-old Manohar will be the third Indian to occupy the top ICC post, after Sharad Pawar, who was the ICC President from 2010 to 2012 and N. Srinivasan, who was elected the first Chairman of ICC in June 2014, after the new administration vested more powers with the cricket boards of India, Australia and England.
While Manohar’s rise as ICC chairman became a corollary following his election as BCCI president, he had rejected an offer from the ICC Board to become ICC president in 2011. In fact, at an ICC meeting in 2011, Srinivasan had announced that the members were keen that he (Manohar) takes over as ICC president.
With the BCCI set to receive 22 per cent of the ICC revenue from 2016 to 2023, and another four per cent after expenses are paid, all put together in excess of Rs. 4000 crore, Manohar should be happy with the development that took place one year ago.
On the cricket front, Manohar (as BCCI president) has already made it clear that the BCCI would accept the much-debated Decision Review System (DRS) without it being applied for leg before decisions; and in the short time he will be ICC Chairman, till June 2016, he would probably take forward this particular issue and solve it to one and all’s liking.
