The elections for the new chairman of the International Cricket Council, the governing body of the game worldwide is in full swing after the chair has remained vacant without a permanent chief for long after Shahashank Manohar’s term end in July this year.
Greg Barclay, New Zealand Cricket's representative on the ICC board, is one of the favorites for the position which is currently being held by Shashank’s deputy and Interim Chair Singapore’s Imran Khwaja. In fact, Barclay is just one vote away from becoming chair of the global governing body with a 10-6 lead after the first round of voting concluded on Wednesday.
With two more rounds of voting to go, the Kiwi needs one more vote to get a 2/3rd majority and hence the ICC chair. According to the new rules in the ICC constitution, a two-thirds majority is required to overthrow the sitting Chair.
Barclay, who joined the ICC as the NZC representative in 2014, has the backing of the BCCI, Cricket Australia, and the ECB - the "big three" in the game and was introduced as an Independent candidate after Colin Graves, former ECB president couldn’t find much support.
Khwaja's position is however backed by PCB president Ehsan Mani and the ICC chief executive Manu Sawhney. While Khawaja is an advocator of having more ICC tournaments and thereby more money coming the way of ICC and getting distributed among the nations that need it, Barclays would likely go the way of the big three which want more bilateral tournaments to boost their coffers.
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