Ehsan Mani

Ehsan Mani is an ex-ICC president. He was born in Rawalpindi in Pakistan on March 23, 1945. He spent his early life in Pakistan playing for the Rawalpindi Club and Government College Lahore XI from 1959 to 1965 as a right-hand batsman and a left-arm fast medium bowler before moving to the United Kingdom to complete his further studies. Mani is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has resided in the UK since the late-1960s.

Cricket administrator

From 1989 to 1996, Mani represented the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in the ICC. For the 1996 Cricket World Cup, he was on the advisory committee as the PCB representative. He was also on the same committee during the 1999 Cricket World Cup played in England. In 1996, he was elected by the ICC member nations to the position of Chairman of the ICC Finance and Marketing Committee. He held on to this post until it was dissolved in June 2002. After that he took over as the Vice-President of the ICC Executive Board. He has also served on a number of ICC Committees, such as the Chairman's Advisory Committee, set up to advise Lord Cowdrey and Sir Clyde Walcott during their stint as ICC President. Other committees he has been a part of are the Rules Review Committee and the Governance and Organisation Committee. In June 2003, he became the ICC President.

Mani is on the board of a number of UK based companies mostly banking and real-estate.

Preceded by Malcolm Gray	President of the ICC 2003-2006	Succeeded by Percy Sonn

References

Presidents of ICC

Colin Cowdrey (1989–1993) Clyde Walcott (1993–1997) Jagmohan Dalmiya (1997–2000) Malcolm Gray (2000–2003) Ehsan Mani (2003–2006) Percy Sonn (2006–2007) Ray Mali (2007–2008) David Morgan (2008–2010) Sharad Pawar (2010–2012) Alan Isaac (2012–2014) Mustafa Kamal (2014–2015) Zaheer Abbas (2015–present)

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