Srinavasan expected to be the new chairman of ICC

 
SYDNEY:  Annual conference in Melbourne which is set to address growing corruption in the sport, suspended Indian cricket chief Narayanaswami Srinivasan is expected to be anointed as the new ICC chairman at this week's conference

The Indian Cricket Board's control has confirmed that 60 years Old Srinivasan--the name included in the incriminatig list of corrupted people in the Indian Premier League-- will stand as chairman of the International Cricket Council in spite of being suspended by Supreme Court of India

The IPL Twenty20 competition has been implicated in assertion of illegal  spot-fixing, including against Srinivasan´s son-in-law.

 Patel was quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald as saying. "There is no Supreme Court bar on him. Both of us are going to Melbourne. In the last four months we have settled (the issue) with all the full members of the ICC and convinced them about the new structure and the new financial model of the ICC which would be followed in the coming years."

Srinivasan´s likely  to the head of the ICC follows contentious changes last February to the governance of the global governing body, which control the bulk of the powers and revenue to the sport´s "big three" nations -- India, Australia and England.

Cricket´s "bible" Wisden Cricketers´ Almanack said international cricket was set for a future of "colonial-style divide and rule". "Cricket is terribly handled, and is exposed to economic profiteering by the country (India) powerful enough to exploit it and the two countries (Australia and England) prepared to give their plans prospect," Wisden said.

There will also be an update at the conference by former senior British police officer Ronnie Flanagan, the chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU), amid reports the unit is to be opened by the "big three" -- Australia, England and India.

Reports said the ACSU, which does not have the powers of a law-enforcement center
, would be the first "sufferer" of the reshuffling of the ICC.
During its 14 years in appearance, the ACSU -- reported to cost $5.5 million a year to run -- has not been directly responsible for hiding a illegal case of corruption at a time when cricket has been trying to battle the peril to its rectitude posed by match and spot-fixing.