Mustafa Kamal, the president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), will
take over as the ICC's vice-president and later president, remaining a
ceremonial part of the administration in keeping with the restructuring
that is set to take place over the next two years. The ICC's executive
board accepted his nomination, made jointly by the BCB and the Pakistan
Cricket Board at the start of its meeting in Colombo on Tuesday.
Kamal will now take over as the vice-president for 2012-14 and then
succeed Alan Isaac as president for 2014-15 over a 12-month period. This
means that Kamal will have to immediately stand down as president of
his home board, with the BCB's elections due sometime in late November.
Kamal's elevation to the post of vice-president was delayed by three
months as it was being debated whether the post of vice-president
remained relevant in the light of the restructuring. The ICC formally changed
its administrative structures at its annual conference in June, which
has made way for the creation of a post of a chairman, who will have
greater executive powers and head the board; the post of president will
subsequently become a largely ceremonial one, with a one-year term, and
the post of vice-president will be abolished. The ICC will appoint its
first chairman at the end of Isaac's term in 2014, meaning Kamal would
be its first ceremonial president.
After the ICC's June conference, it was stated that Kamal would have to
present his case that the vice-presidency was indeed still relevant and
he is known to have made a 15-minute presentation before the board on
Tuesday, underlining his philosophies and plans for the two-year
position. He said later he was thankful to the ICC, BCB and PCB for the
honour of his nomination and to the "160 million people of Bangladesh"
for their support. "I will do what's necessary for the betterment of
world cricket," he said.
Kamal will in effect be the last ICC vice-president. After his
presidency term ends, the ceremonial president will an 'ideal
candidate', and not picked via zonal nominations as is currently the
case. This is, the fourth time since 1996 that the ICC has amended its
method of appointing a president and the role he plays.
The BCB could not immediately confirm who would replace Kamal until
their elections in November. A source in the board told ESPNcricinfo
that either the government will appoint a successor (Kamal himself was a
government-appointed BCB president) or the senior vice-president,
Mahbubul Anam, may be slotted into the president's role for the interim.
A proposed BCB constitutional amendment, which has been sent to the
National Sports Council for ratification, states that the next BCB
president is to be elected democratically. The most widely discussed
successors to Kamal's post at the moment are Saber Hossain Chowdhury (a
former BCB president) and Nazmul Hasan (the son of the country's
president Zillur Rahman) who is the chairman of one of the leading
Bangladesh cricket clubs, Abahani Cricket.
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