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Manohar Persuaded To Remain ICC Chair Until At Least June

Nine days after resigning as chair of the Int'l Cricket Council citing "personal reasons," Shashank Manohar is "back at the helm, at least temporarily," according to Mike Atherton of the LONDON TIMES. Manohar has been "persuaded to stay on until June to help to push through the significant governance and financial reforms agreed in principle by the governing body in February." Why Manohar stepped down in the first place has not been revealed, but it is "stretching credulity to think that it had nothing to do with his meeting, the previous evening, with two administrators from the Board of Control for Cricket in India," which had "outlined its opposition to the proposed reforms." India and Sri Lanka voted against the proposals in February. When Manohar stepped down, "the fear was that the BCCI had been working to gather support for its position and that Manohar's resignation signified his belief that the reforms had little chance of succeeding." Thursday, though, "he sounded more optimistic, promising to see the job through" (LONDON TIMES, 3/24). THE HITAVADA's Rahul Dixit reported since Manohar's resignation, the ICC directors, including West Indies Cricket Board President Dave Cameron, England & Wales Cricket Board President Giles Clarke and Cricket Australia Chair David Peever and CEO Dave Richardson, had been "in touch with him to change his decision." Manohar said, "They had been calling every day asking me to reconsider my decision. I told them it was absolutely on personal reasons that I had quit." Later, nine full members of the ICC Board including India, Australia, England, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Bangladesh, England and West Indies, and three associate members -- Singapore, Ireland and Namibia -- passed a "resolution for Manohar's continuance" until the annual conference in June (THE HITAVADA, 3/24).

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