Sri Lanka deals body blow to Howard's ICC ambition

(May 27, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Former Australia Prime Minister John Howard's dreams to become ICC President in 2012 received a body blow today with Sri Lanka joining Zimbabwe and South Africa in resisting his nomination for the vice-president's post.

Howard, an Australia-New Zealand candidate under ICC's region-based nomination system, is in fact one negative vote away from losing his bid to become the ICC vice-president.

Sri Lanka Cricket's interim committee chairman Somachandra de Silva said SLC would not support anyone without a cricket background.

"On principle it is the wrong thing to do to bring someone from outside for the vice-presidency," de Silva said.

"We would support any of the directors from Australia and New Zealand who are representatives of the ICC, but not anyone from outside," he told 'Cricinfo'.

Source: PTI ( India)