Inderjit Singh Bindra may have lost out to Imtiaz Patel in the race for the post of chief executive of the ICC, but his new position as the principle advisor doesn't make his position any less powerful. Bindra, who will report directly to the president, will be principally in charge of handling the various major properties of the ICC, overseeing the smooth conduct of major events, only increasing India's clout within the ICC. Anand Vasu of the Hindustan Times has more.
It used to be called the Imperial Cricket Conference, it’s now called the International Cricket Council but soon people will be referring to it as the Indian Cricket Club. This is not because Imtiaz Patel, a South African of Indian origin has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer, but because Inderjit Singh Bindra has been made principal advisor to the ICC, an all-powerful post that gives him the widest range of powers of anyone in the ICC barring the president, a post that Sharad Pawar will next fill. Pawar will succeed David Morgan in June 2010.
Yesterday's meeting of the ICC in Dubai was another bizarre day in the history of a bizarre organisation, adding further fuel to the theory that the ICC are struggling to cope with a rapidly changing game. As usual, the ICC have failed to reconcile the widely differing viewpoints among their 10 full members, and come up with a clumsy fudge.
