Date:18/03/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/18/stories/2008031859681900.htm

Sport - Cricket

Patel to succeed Speed

Dubai: South Africa’s Imtiaz Patel was appointed on Monday as the next Chief Executive Officer of the International Cricket Council and India’s I.S. Bindra named the Principal Advisor, a new post at the game’s world governing body, according to David Morgan, the ICC president-elect.

Patel, a South African of Indian origin, pipped Bindra in the race to succeed Malcolm Speed, whose term comes to an end in June this year.