Why Manohar quit suddenly as ICC chairman
UNEXPECTED Just eight months in his twoyear term, the former BCCI president cited personal reasons in his letter
Plans for reform at the International Cricket Council and the creation of a world Test championship have been left in a state of flux after Shashank Manohar, the chairman of the governing body and a driving force for change, tendered his resignation on Wednesday.
Manohar, the 59-year-old Indian lawyer who was just eight months into a two-year term as the ICC’s first independent chairman, cited “personal reasons” in his letter to the chief executive, Dave Richardson, but his decision comes amid reports that India, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are ready to block moves to shake up the global game.
A former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Manohar had been looking to scale back the so-called “Big Three” model devised in 2014 that saw India, Australia and England take greater control of the sport at international level and award themselves just over half of the revenues generated by ICC events such as the World Cup, describing them as “decisions that were, in retrospect, not always in the best interests of the game as a whole.”
This damning appraisal followed the drawing up of a revised constitution at the start of last month that was due to be decided upon at the next ICC meetings in April, along with proposals to create league systems for both Test and one-day cricket that would give greater context and meaning to international series amid the rising profile of domes-