Ehsan Mani

Ehsan Mani was a former President of the International Cricket Council (ICC). 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 in played 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. During the sale of media rights in 2000, he managed to garner an income of $550 million up to the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

References

* [http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/media/iccct2004mis/mani.html Ehsan Mani] ICC official site.
* [http://content.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/40076.html Cricinfo-Pakistan]
* [http://www.cricketnext.com/features1/sanjayjha/sanjayjha115.htm CricketNext.com]