ICC presidency term to be cut to a year

	The nomination of Bangladesh CEO Mustafa Kamal as the joint candidate from Bangladesh and Pakistan for the vice-president's post has been deferred until June © Getty Images Enlarge
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The ICC's Executive Board confirmed a constitutional amendment that will re-define the role of its president and create a new post of a non-voting Board Chairman. If the amendment is approved by the ICC's general body, the ICC's presidency will become a rotational one-year term, starting 2014, and the post of vice-president will cease to exist. The chairman's post will be a maximum of six years comprising two three-year terms.

This will be the fourth time the ICC has made a change in its presidential format since reworking its constitution in 1996.

The nomination of Bangladesh CEO Mustafa Kamal as the joint candidate from Bangladesh and Pakistan for the vice-president's post, to succeed Sir Alan Isaac in 2014, has been deferred until the ICC's annual conference, to be held in Kuala Lumpur at the end of June.

It is now clear that the post of Chairman of the Board would begin in 2014, but procedure for the appointment or the election of the post has not yet been established. It is also not clear whether the new 'ceremonial' post of president would have any part to play in executive board functioning. At the moment the president is involved in Board meetings, but has no vote. The Chairman would now be the head of the Board.

The Board also stated that recommendations made by the Woolf independent governance review needed "further discussion" to build a greater consensus and said that the directors of the Board - the chiefs of all the Full Member boards and three associate representatives - would "begin discussion among themselves" in order to develop, "a clearer understanding of the role of the ICC."

The directors of the Board, it was said, would hold "more informal dicussions" among themselves and member boards in order to prepare for the discussions during the Kuala Lumpur meeting.

Apart from splitting the role of president and chairman of the board - both non-voting positions - the only other recommendation of the Woolf independent governance review that the Board had categorically agreed to was about "creating targeted funding" for members. The ICC has given no further details of the 'targeted funding' that was being considered. Haroon Lorgat, the CEO, said it would have been, "unrealistic" to expect immediate decisions to be taken in regard to the Woolf report but said "it is encouraging there is a willingness to engage in difficult and significant governance matters."

The Woolf review had called for sweeping changes in the global administration of cricket and the administration of the ICC.