John Howard to be next VP of ICC

Just been announced

Now if he'll only come back as Lib leader

Fixed

Oh FFS.

Zat wrote:Oh FFS.

I agree - he should have been elected "El Presidente"!

lol at bodyline...


tears for the future of cricket...unless as I suggested elsewhere ljh and Modi both expire in a death match

Does this mean the Aus v Lankan tests will be at played at Nauru?

bodyline wrote:

Zat wrote:Oh FFS.

I agree - he should have been elected "El Presidente"!

It means he will be President of the ICC in 2012. That's how it works. Some countries had issues with Mal Speed when he held the post, wait till there's a dispute when LJH in in the top spot...

Would be hella funny if the ICC president refuses to step down in 2012 saying "he'll stay in the job as long as the ICC wants him to" and LJH sits around as VP for a decade or more .

Sharad Pawar takes over as ICC prez in June 2010...

Zat wrote:Sharad Pawar takes over as ICC prez in June 2010...

Not for long - ol' Johnny will be drawing up the coup plans. The no coup plans for the ICC is a Non Core promise.

Update


Former prime minister John Howard will become the next vice-president of the International Cricket Council and will take on the presidency from 2012.

Mr Howard fended off a strong challenge from New Zealand candidate Sir John Anderson to earn the nomination.

Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket jointly nominated Mr Howard to the ICC today after a tense few months in which both national boards fiercely defended their favoured candidate.

New Zealand Cricket pushed strongly for Sir John, its former board chairman and long-time cricket official, while Mr Howard was the preferred choice of Cricket Australia.

So contentious had the decision become that Sir Rod Eddington, the former British Airways chief, was called in to preside over a nomination committee charged with resolving the impasse.

A decision had been expected yesterday but, given the contentious nature of the debate, more time was required.

Under the ICC’s rotational policy, an Australasian nominee will take over the ICC presidency from 2012.

That role will now fall to Mr Howard, who will make his first strides into sporting administration.

"We are pleased that an eminent candidate in John Howard has agreed, after an exhaustive process, to take the role of joint Australia-New Zealand nominee for the ICC presidency," said Jack Clarke and Allen Isaac, the chairmen of Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket, in a joint statement.

''It was an extremely difficult decision and ultimately relied on the input of Sir Rod Eddington, whom both cricket boards respect enormously.

"The ICC faces significant and complex internal and external challenges in its quest for cricket to become a genuinely global sport.

"Australia and New Zealand considered a number of distinguished candidates of global stature before deciding to invite John Howard to consider the role."

David Morgan, who is now in the chair, is due to hand over to India's Sharad Pawar for a two-year period to start in the middle of the year.

Mr Howard said he was honoured and humbled to receive the joint Australia-New Zealand invitation but did not want to comment until his nomination had become official in June.

- with AAP

Well, it won't be long before Red is posting spanky's analysis of this.

I'm speechless...

JGK wrote:I'm speechless...

So am I when you think he could have been put in the job almost three years ago - such a waste of talent.

Aye

i thought he was going to be put in charge of the commision that is being set up to farque leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg

the work there is done

Chappelli's inevitable Cricinfo commentary is going to be fun.

Could spell the end of any chance of cracking the China market - ol' LJH wouldn't let some pinko, left, commie play the "gentlemen's game".

So Chris Gayle can take his dreadlocks and piss off and play something else now, none of that Rasta nonsense here thank you very much - and the Sith Effs will get an ultimatum that their days as a full international status team are over unless they reinstate apartheid,

bodyline wrote:Could spell the end of any chance of cracking the China market - ol' LJH wouldn't let some pinko, left, commie play the "gentlemen's game".

Huzzah.

And is this the first step on getting India banned?

skully wrote:And is this the first step on getting India banned?

Yes - unless they reinstate the Empire.

Howard still thinks the games should be called the "empah games"

Bollybogan, Midge, Brazen and all the other lefties will be nervous.

To me the LJH nomination exceeds the worst of any previous ACB decisions including the appointment of the current chair of the NSP...
The ACB is a bunch of col blimps drinking their brandy and smoking their cigars in some faux English Mens Club...lets get little johnnie to fix up cricket

[quote="horace"]Howard still thinks the games should be called the "empah games"

Bollybogan, Midge, Brazen and all the other lefties will be nervous.

To me the LJH nomination exceeds the worst of any previous ACB decisions including the appointment of the current chair of the NSP...
The ACB is a bunch of col blimps drinking their brandy and smoking their cigars in some faux English Mens Club...lets get little johnnie to fix up cricket[/quote

Ummm - don't you mean the UAE?

This news has made my week . . . and the silly Bannies were carrying on about SRT's 200* . . . .