'India ready to extend domination'
Scyld Berry, in the Daily Telegraph , looks ahead to the ICC annual conference in Hong Kong and, in particular, the proposal to abolish fixed terms for ICC presidents and its implications.
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Scyld Berry, in the Daily Telegraph, looks ahead to the ICC annual conference in Hong Kong and, in particular, the proposal to abolish fixed terms for ICC presidents and its implications.
Even Sepp Blatter puts himself up for automatic re-election occasionally. But India have introduced into cricket the concept of president-for-life — Jagmohan Dalmiya, after becoming the first Indian ICC president made himself president-for-life of the Bengal Cricket Association — and so world cricket might have one person in charge in perpetuity even if, like one or two ICC presidents, he does not know one end of a bat from the other.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo