Benaud has stature to steer the ICC

Richie Benaud is the man who could be best suited to take over as the president of the ICC after the death of Percy Sonn, says Mark Nicholas in The Daily Telegraph. Worried over administrators overlooking the game's finer aspects in the race for burgeoning revenues, Nicholas writes:

Sonn's replacement as president until 2009 - in theory, a period without any major television battles to fight - should be a former player, someone of such indisputable stature that its board members will listen and learn about the game they purport to value but are defacing. Top of the shopping list should be Richie Benaud but given that he is unlikely to want the hassle, there are crop of younger men worthy of global respect and edgy enough to give it a crack. Imran Khan is one; Michael Holding and Mark Taylor are others.