Pakistan Cricket Board’s chairman Ehsan Mani has been appointed as the head of the ICC’s influential Finance & Commercial Affairs committee.
The appointment was carried out during the InternationalCricket Council’s annual conference last week.
The PCB announced on Tuesday that another PCB official,Salman Naseer, who is its general counsel and barrister, has been included onthe ICC’s Safeguarding panel.
The PCB said both appointments were made by ICC chairmanShashank Manohar.
The F&CA is one of the ICC’s most important committees,assisting the organisation in discharging its responsibilities in relation toall financial and commercial matters.
The other members of this committee are Indra Nooyi(independent director), Amitabh Choudhury (BCCI acting secretary), ChrisNenzani (CSA president), Imran Khawaja (ICC vice-chairman), Earl Eddings (CAchairman) and Colin Graves (ECB chairman).
ICC chairman Shashank Manohar and ICC chief executiveofficer Manu Sawhney will also sit on the F&CA as ex-officio members.
The 74-year-old Mani, a chartered accountant by profession,was appointed as the ICC’s first F&CA chairman in 1996 and served until2002, negotiating the apex body’s first-ever broadcast rights deal then worthapproximately USD 550 million.
Mani, then, moved on to become ICC president until 2006 andwas also instrumental in helping the it seal a USD 1.1 billion media rightsdeal with ESPN Star Sports for the 2007-15 cycle.
The veteran administrator said in a statement that he wasgrateful to the ICC chairman for the confidence he has reposed in him andlooked forward to working with Sawhney and his team.He has also been included in the ICC AuditCommittee, which will be chaired by India’s Yuvraj Narayan.