KEN GORDON BLANKED BY ICC

West Indies Cricket Board President Kenneth Gordon has been blanked ,The ICC have revealed David Morgan, the chairman of the ECB and Sharad Pawar, the BCCI president, as the two nominees to succeed Percy Sonn as president of the board. There is no mention anywhere of support for Ken Gordon as a future ICC president, a position last held by a West Indian through the late Sir Clyde Walcott.

Sonn, 57, began his two-year term at the ICC's annual conference in 2006. The board has the option of extending his contract to three years but, if not, his successor will take office at the annual conference next year. Pawar, who became the BCCI's president in November 2005, has the backing of five member boards, including the Asian bloc.

A new nominations committee was put in place in July 2005 who will shortly meet to consider the nominations, before announcing its recommendation to the next executive board meeting in March. Voting will then take place at the annual conference which, this year, is being held in London; the successful candidate must secure support from two-thirds of the members.

"This is the first time this method of selecting the ICC president has been employed," said Dr Muttiah, chairman of the ICC nominations committee. "It is a fair and transparent process and one that we believe will ensure the most suitable candidate gets the job."