Isaac, who is currently the chairman of New Zealand Cricket, was nominated by Australia and New Zealand for the post that will see him take over as president of the ICC in 2012.
“Isaac is an extremely able and experienced administrator with an outstanding record in both business and public life,” said the English and Wales Cricket Board Chairman Giles Clarke. “He has chaired New Zealand Cricket with distinction, is extremely respected internationally and will make an excellent ICC president in due course.”
Meanwhile, the working committee of the Indian cricket board BCCI formally endorsed Isaac for the post that is rotated among the ICC’s Test-playing nations. “The committee approved the candidature of Isaac for the post of ICC vice-president,” said the BCCI in a one-line statement.
Isaac, whose nomination is expected to be rubber-stamped by the ICC’s executive board soon, will serve as vice-president before taking over from current president Sharad Pawar of India.
Isaac, a chartered accountant by profession, has been on the board of New Zealand Cricket for 20 years and became its chairman in 2008.
The ICC had on July 1 rejected the candidature of Howard - following a reported revolt by the Afro-Asian bloc in the ICC - and asked Australia and New Zealand to nominate a new man by August 31.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 1st, 2010.
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