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Re: John Howard for ICC President!
No Boris, there is absolutely no metric in which Howard could be seen as a superior candidate to Sir John Anderson (Apart from the fact that he Australian, which appears to be the only reason he was chosen).
Both have vast experience in politics, but Anderson was specifically on the ICC board for 13 years, and as such would have far more knowledge of the intimate workings of the ICC. Among his achievements, according to Cricinfo, was "play(ing) a key role in restructuring the ICC's internal make-up and rewrote its articles and committee manual."
John Howard, on the other hand, sometimes dressed up in a green and gold tracksuit to watch the cricket, called Murali a chucker, and presided over a xenophonic, nationalist government for 12 years, supremely unbefitting for the leader of an organisation as culturally diverse as the ICC.
No Boris, there is absolutely no metric in which Howard could be seen as a superior candidate to Sir John Anderson (Apart from the fact that he Australian, which appears to be the only reason he was chosen).
Both have vast experience in politics, but Anderson was specifically on the ICC board for 13 years, and as such would have far more knowledge of the intimate workings of the ICC. Among his achievements, according to Cricinfo, was "play(ing) a key role in restructuring the ICC's internal make-up and rewrote its articles and committee manual."
John Howard, on the other hand, sometimes dressed up in a green and gold tracksuit to watch the cricket, called Murali a chucker, and presided over a xenophonic, nationalist government for 12 years, supremely unbefitting for the leader of an organisation as culturally diverse as the ICC.