The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) nominated Najam Sethi as its candidate for the presidency of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday (October 30), three months after Sethi had resigned as the PCB chairman.
Sethi’s nomination was confirmed after approval from Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan Prime Minister and patron of the PCB.
“The PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan and the Board of Governors have unanimously recommended Sethi as Pakistan’s nominee for president of the ICC for the 2015-16 term commencing on July 1, 2015,” said a PCB release.
Ehsan Mani, also from Pakistan, held the ICC president’s post between 2003 and 2006 but in 2012 the ICC changed the structure of its top-level administration effective from 2014, making the role a ceremonial one with a one-year term, handing over power to the new post of chairman.
N Srinivasan took over as ICC’s chairman for the next two years in June this year.
Mustafa Kamal, the former Bangladesh Cricket Board president, is the current ICC president, and his tenure will end in June 2015.
“Sethi is a renowned international award winning journalist. Last year he served as chairman PCB and helped fashion a new democratic constitution for the PCB, later voluntarily stepping aside to make way for the election of Khan,” the PCB said.
Sethi endured a tumultuous spell at the head of the PCB, being appointed and removed from the post repeatedly over a 14-month tussle between him and Zaka Ashraf.
Eventually he stepped down and Shaharyar was elected unopposed in August.
PCB nominate Sethi for ICC presidency
