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Greg Barclay : The new Independent Chairman of ICC. ICC Chairman will be Greg Barclay.

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.

ICC Decade Awards ; King Kohli Dominate and Appear in Every Nomination List of ICC Decade Awards.

ICC has released the nominees for icc decade awards candidates. It consist of 5 categories. Men’s player of the decade, Men’s ODI Player of the Decade, Men’s Test Player of the Decade, Men’s T20I Player of the Decade and ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade.

Unsurprisingly only cricketer that is nominated in all the category of icc decade awards is none other than King Virat Kohli.

Virat Kohli has scored more than 20 thousand runs in this decade (2010-19) which is not only most runs scored by an batsmen in one decade but also it is most runs scored in a decade ever in international cricket history.
It is most likely that majority of the awards will be won by virat Kohli due to his charismatic and consistent performance across all format in international cricket.

HERE IS THE LIST OF CATEGORIES AND NOMINEES OF ICC DECADE AWARD 2020.

Men’s Player of the Decade:
Virat Kohli (Indian) Ravichandran Ashwin (Indian), Joe Root (England), Kane Williamson (New Zealander), Steve Smith (Australian), AB de Villiers (South African), and Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lankan).

Men’s Test Player of the Decade:
Virat Kohli (Indian), Kane Williamson (New Zealander), Steve Smith(australian) , James Anderson (England), Rangana Herath (Sri Lankan), and Yasir Shah (Pakistani).

Men’s ODI Player of the Decade: Virat Kohli (Indian), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lankan), Mitchell Starc (Australian), AB de Villiers(south African) , Rohit Sharma (Indian), MS Dhoni (Indian), and Kumara Sangakkara (Sri Lankan).

Men’s T20I Player of the Decade: Rashid Khan (Afghanistani), Virat Kohli (Indian), Imran Tahir (South African), Aaron Finch (Australian), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lankan), Chris Gayle (West Indies), and Rohit Sharma (Indian).

Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade:
Virat Kohli (Indian), Kane Williamson (New Zealander), Brendon McCullum (New Zealander), Misbah-ul-Haq (Pakistani), MS Dhoni (Indian), Anya Shrubsole (England), Katherine Brunt (England), Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lankan), and Daniel Vettori (New Zealander).

The winner of the awards would be decided on the basis of most vote received by the cricketer.