ECB chairman Giles Clarke in line to become organisation's first president
Tuesday 13 January 2015 18:31, UK
Giles Clarke has been nominated to become the England and Wales Cricket Board's first president as part of an overhaul of the organisation.
Representatives from the 18 first-class counties and the MCC have spent two days in meetings with ECB officials discussing possible constitutional changes.
Among the proposals is the creation of a president's role, and Clarke has been put forward for the job as he enters the final few months of his reign as chairman.
All 41 ECB members will vote this month on whether to approve Clarke, whose role as chairman could now go to Yorkshire chairman Colin Graves.
Graves received formal nominations at the meeting after confirming he will stand, and rival candidates have until the end of January to declare an interest before a new chairman is elected in May.
Speaking to the Yorkshire Post recently, Graves said: "I would want a top-to-bottom review of cricket - from England Test match cricket right down to recreational cricket.
"If you ask most people whether cricket is positioned right at the moment, and whether everybody is happy with cricket, I don't think anybody would put their hand up and say 'Yes', so there's a lot of things we've got to sort out."
The ECB's new chief executive Tom Harrison, meanwhile, has been given the job of delivering a strategy for the future by the end of 2015.
