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Richie Benaud: the best man to take over as ICC president?
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Richie Benaud is the man who could be best suited to take over as the president of the ICC after the death of Percy Sonn, says Mark Nicholas in
The Daily
Telegraph. Worried over administrators overlooking the game's finer
aspects in the race for burgeoning revenues, Nicholas writes:
Sonn's replacement as president until 2009 - in theory, a period without
any major television battles to fight - should be a former player, someone
of such indisputable stature that its board members will listen and learn
about the game they purport to value but are defacing. Top of the shopping
list should be Richie Benaud but given that he is unlikely to want the
hassle, there are crop of younger men worthy of global respect and edgy
enough to give it a crack. Imran Khan is one; Michael Holding and Mark
Taylor are others.
