South Africa to nominate Sonn's replacement

The ICC board has unanimously approved a recommendation for Cricket South Africa to nominate an acting president following the death of Percy Sonn last month. Once the nominee is approved they will assume the role until the ICC's annual conference in 2008.

The ICC's governance review committee (GRC) met in Cape Town on June 1 and made the recommendation about Sonn's replacement. The GRC, made up of Cricket Australia's chairman Creagh O'Connor, Peter Chingoka (chairman of Zimbabwe Cricket), HRH Tunku Imran (president of Malaysian Cricket Association and an Associate Member representative) and Malcolm Speed (ICC chief executive) reviewed both the current ICC constitution (in place since June 2005) and the one under which Sonn was nominated as ICC president.

Speed said: "It is appropriate that CSA should make this nomination and I have no doubt that it will put forward a worthy successor to Percy Sonn, who served the ICC so well during his time in office."

The ICC board will now wait for CSA to makes its nomination. Once the nomination is received, it will go back before the board for final approval. The acting president will exercise all the powers and duties of the president while in office and the role won't prejudice his chances of being appointed ICC president in the future.