Shashank Manohar steps down as ICC chairman after two stints

Shashank Manohar has served two consecutive terms as the ICC chairman starting 2016 when he was also the president of the BCCI. (File image: Reuters)

Shashank Manohar stepped down as Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) today. Manohar has called it a day after the completion of his second term as the head of the global cricket governing body. The ICC is likely to decide the process for the selection of the next chairman by next week.

The Current Deputy Chairman Imran Khwaja will handle the affairs of the ICC till the election of the next ICC chairman. Khwaja expressed a sense of gratitude for the outgoing chairman and said that Manohar has left cricket and the ICC in better shape than it was when he assumed office as the chairman.

“On behalf of the ICC Board and staff and the whole cricket family, I would like to thank Shashank for his leadership and everything he has done for the sport as ICC Chairman. We wish him and his family all the very best for the future.”, said ICC Chief Executive, Manu Sawhney.

Shashank Manohar has served two consecutive terms as the ICC chairman starting 2016 when he was also the president of the BCCI. He then resigned from the post of BCCI president and also as the representative of the BCCI and Asian Cricket Council on the ICC Board. After completion of the first term in 2018, he was elected unanimously by the ICC board in 2018.

His tenure as the ICC Chairman ran into some serious conflict issues between the major cricket boards, especially the BCCI as he decided to walk away from the constitutional changes brought by the ICC in 2014. As per a Reuters report, the constitutional changes were designed to give almost total command of the ICC’s policies and benefits to BCCI, Cricket Australia and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).