The search for the ICC's next CEO

Lorgat accepts offer to be ICC chief

Ajay S Shankar

April 2, 2008

	Haroon Lorgat is willing to become the ICC's chief executive © Getty Images

The ICC appears to have taken a huge step forward in appointing a new chief executive with Haroon Lorgat, the former convenor of Cricket South Africa's selection committee, accepting an official offer to take up the job. The offer, Cricinfo has learnt, was made on Wednesday evening during a "well-conducted" and "professional" meeting Lorgat had in Cape Town with David Morgan, the ICC's president-elect.

Morgan met Lorgat on behalf of the ICC's four-man recruitment committee, which includes Ray Mali, the ICC president, Sharad Pawar, the BCCI president and Morgan's chosen successor, and Creagh O' Connor, the chairman of Cricket Australia.

However, Lorgat's appointment is still some way away: Morgan will now report to the recruitment committee, which will have to agree on the preferred candidate and then make a recommendation to the ICC executive board to confirm the appointment as early as possible.

Lorgat will take over from Malcolm Speed, who steps down from the position after this year's ICC annual conference, which will take place between June 29 and July 4.

The ICC has been looking at an early resolution to the search for its next CEO after its earlier choice Imtiaz Patel, also from South Africa, declared on Sunday that he had withdrawn interest in the job. Lorgat, who figured on the ICC's original shortlist of six, had told Cricinfo on Monday that he would consider any such offer as "a great honour".

Lorgat, 47, headed CSA's selection committee for three years till the 2007 World Cup. A qualified chartered accountant - whose roots, like Patel's, are in India - and formerly a senior partner in Ernst & Young, he is currently on the board of Kapela Investments, a private venture he set up last year with five other associates.

Dave Richardson, the former South Africa wicketkeeper and ICC's general manager, was the other significant candidate for the job after Patel pulled out. IS Bindra, the former BCCI president and a third name of note on the ICC's shortlist, has already been appointed the ICC's principal advisor.

Ajay Shankar is deputy editor of Cricinfo in Bangalore

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