The International Cricket Council will convene its annual meeting in Colombo later this month to kick things off with the presidential election. With the election of a new president in November, Jay Shah, the current secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, is widely speculated to become the youngest leader of the global organisation. He will have at least three months to deliberate on moving to Dubai.

According to a Cricbuzz report, this annual conference can be scheduled from July 19 to July 22. Jay Shah himself will be eager to take charge of this post. Greg Barclay has been holding the post of president for the last 4 years. Greg Barclay may be interested in holding this post in the future as well if he wants. However, if Jay Shah decides to contest the election, he is expected to win the election unopposed.

In February, a report had revised the tenure of the ICC President. If Jay Shah is elected, he will hold the post as ICC President for 3 years. Not only this, after this, as per the BCCI constitution, he will become eligible to take over the presidency of BCCI in 2028.

There is a lot of speculation in the international media about Jay Shah’s involvement in the ICC and the shifting of the ICC headquarters from Dubai to Mumbai. The BCCI secretary is reportedly keen to implement reforms within the ICC, especially after the conclusion of the recently concluded ICC T20 World Cup 2024. The annual conference is also expected to finalise the timelines for elections.

Many big decisions can be taken in the annual conference

Meanwhile, elections for Associate Member directors are scheduled for July 19 during the Annual Conference. There are 11 candidates competing for three positions on the ICC Board of Directors, each serving a term of two years. The current directors are Pankaj Khimji of Oman, Imran Khwaja of Singapore and Neil of Bermuda.
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In its statement, the ICC said, ‘The election will be conducted using an electronic voting system that allows anonymous voting. In case the electronic system does not work, the voting will be conducted as a manual vote by group voting. All voters will be asked to vote for the three candidates they specifically want to vote for.

In case there is a tie, the candidates involved will be asked to agree again as to who among them should be appointed and in situations where the candidates are unable to agree, the decision will be taken by toss of a coin.’