Newzealand cricket head Greg Barclay has been elected as a independent chairman of International Cricket council. Greg Barclay has defeated Imran khawaja of Singapore. And now Greg Barclay will replace India’s Shashank Manohar.
Election was held on Tuesday during icc general meeting. Electronic voting was done by total 16 boards of directors. In which twelve were full test playing members, three were associate members and one independent female director (Indra Nooyi).ICC CEO Manu Sahni is the 17th member of icc meeting but he does not have right to vote in the election. India England, Newzealand and Australia has voted in favour of Greg Barclay. And Pakistan was supporting Imran Khawaja. To win the position of icc chairman post candidate should have 2/3rd of total votes. And Greg Barclay done it with 11-5.
Greg Barclay was in favour of more bilateral series and Imran Khawaja was in favour of more icc tournaments. Greg Barclay has to leave his Newzealand’s cricket head post to join as an independent chairman of ICC.Greg Barclay thanks all the members for the support. And he said that he value the cricketing market countries but he also want to grow the game in other countries were cricket is at nascent stage. He want existing big members to make money but he also want the game of cricket to grow and spread further worldwide.
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