Morris joins race for the ECB chair
21/08/2007 |
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Sir Bill Morris is to stand as a candidate in the rerun of the election for the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board. Morris, an independent member of the ECB board, has decided to put his name forward to succeed David Morgan after the existing candidates, Giles Clarke and Mike Soper, split the vote of county chairmen and MCC 9-9, with a single abstention.
Morris, the former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, had been urged to stand in the first vote but, with the counties deadlocked, he has reconsidered and will now seek the two nominations and a seconder he requires to become a candidate by the September 3 deadline.
Morris became an independent non-executive member of the ECB board in 2004 and has chaired the Major Match Group, the committee charged with allocating international matches to county grounds, giving him first-hand experience of an issue that lies at the heart of the Soper-Clarke impasse. He has also been a prominent supporter of the Chance to Shine grassroots initiative.
His task now is to attract the three nominees required to get on the ballot paper, which may not be straightforward. Seven counties are effectively spoken for, with Clarke nominated yesterday by Durham, Gloucester and Essex and supported by his own county, Somerset. Soper has the support of three more and, with MCC highly unlikely to take a lead, Morris requires three supporters from the remaining 11 counties.
(Source: Guardian.co.uk)
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