Six boards reject John Howard for ICC role

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Six boards reject John Howard for ICC role

Cricket Australia is waiting to confirm whether John Howard has failed in his push to become the ICC's vice-president following a move from six countries to block the appointment. The position taken by the board members on Tuesday night was believed to be an attempt to force Howard to withdraw his nomination before the executive meeting in Singapore on Wednesday.

Howard remained in the race and unless there is a significant turnaround as the discussions conclude, it will leave the ICC without a deputy when India's Sharad Pawar takes over the presidency from David Morgan this week. "We're still waiting to hear the outcome," a Cricket Australia spokesman told Cricinfo.

Six ICC board members signed a letter on Tuesday rejecting the appointment, but Zimbabwe, the most strident back-room protestor of Howard's nomination, was not one of them. Howard was a critic of Zimbabwe during his term as Australian prime minister and was responsible for banning the team from touring there in 2007.

Six boards reject John Howard for ICC role

Definitely dodgy. Anyone who's grudged by the BCCI doesn't stand a chance in hell of getting through.
 

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Good news :clap Thanks God that right wing hawk is not going to meddle with the game we all love.
 

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That's hardly got anything to do with it. Why are you mixing politics with sport?
 

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He may not have been bad for Pakistan, as in 2002 it was he who decided to leave the tour of Pakistan up to CA (who later decided not to tour) instead of making a government decision on it like Zimbabwe.

Of course, he is a confrontational figure, so it may have been for the best.
 

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Well done. Blame it on BCCI every time something happens in world.
 
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Great news, don't need any right wing , war mongering, Bush allies anywhere near cricket.

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That's hardly got anything to do with it. Why are you mixing politics with sport?

Thats tweaking rich, no one mixes politics with sport more than Howard himself. He has been a polarizing character from the start, and that is the last thing the ICC needs,.

fearsome tweak John howard
 

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Hardly a surprise. Although with Zimbabwe supposedly not part of the 6-prong rejection, who is the sixth member?

For
Australia
New Zealand

Against
South Africa
Sri Lanka
India
Bangladesh
Pakistan

Unknown
Zimbabwe
England
West Indies

I'm guessing England will side with Australia. So did the West Indies counter the Howard nomination as well?

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As I've been saying from the start, Howard is just getting punished for his brash attitude when he was PM. His comments were completely unacceptable for a politician of his stature and I'm glad it's come back to bite him in the ass.
 

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Thats flinging rich, no one mixes politics with sport more than Howard himself. He has been a polarizing character from the start, and that is the last thing the ICC needs,.

fling John howard

I don't know about that, the only mixing he did here really was to promote sport. Made it compulsory for certain sporting events to be shown on FTA TV and to regional networks, which was a big plus.
 
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pcfan123

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Forgetting about the ridiculously inappropriate comments about Murali? And his dealing with Zimbabwe? and that he is nothing more than a Bush asslicker?
 

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The Murali comments weren't appropriate at the time but it's all been forgiven. The Zimbabwe thing was one bad mix I suppose.

But then he's done good to, playing a role in the Tsunami Appeal game, etc.
 

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