He had served as the acting CEO for the last eight months, following the ICC\u2019s issues with Manu Sawhney
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\nGeoff Allardice has been named the full-time CEO of the ICC after serving in the role on an interim basis for more than eight months. Allardice had taken over the role from Manu Sawhney in March, when the latter was suspended based on the findings of a cultural review.
\nAllardice, a former first-class cricketer from Australia who has a degree in chemical engineering, earlier served as ICC general manager (cricket) for eight years. He did not play international cricket but was a prolific, dogged batter for Melbourne University in club cricket and played 18 matches for Victoria in the early 1990s. Former CA CEO James Sutherland was Allardice\u2019s long-time Melbourne University team-mate. Eventually, Sutherland brought Allardice into the CA set-up as umpires\u2019 manager in the early 2000s. From there, he went up the ladder to become CA\u2019s cricket operations general manager, before moving on to the ICC in July 2012.
\n\u201cMy continued focus will be on doing the right thing for our sport and working closely with Members to deliver long-term success and sustainability,\u201d Allardice said. \u201cI would also like to thank the ICC staff for their commitment and support over the last eight months and I\u2019m looking forward to continuing to serve cricket with such a talented team.\u201d
\nSawhney was first asked to go on leave by the ICC in March following issues that emerged over his management style after a cultural review, which was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He was then officially let go from his role in July, following a decision taken by the ICC board.
\nICC chairman Greg Barclay said: \u201cI am delighted that Geoff has agreed to take the role of ICC CEO on a permanent basis. He has shown tremendous leadership during an extremely challenging period culminating in the successful delivery of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2021.
\n\u201cGeoff has unrivaled knowledge of the global cricket landscape and its stakeholders and has consistently demonstrated he is the right person to work in partnership with our Members to shape the sport for the next decade as we embark on delivering a new strategy and our next commercial rights cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He had served as the acting CEO for the last eight months, following the ICC\u2019s issues with Manu Sawhney islamabad Geoff Allardice has been named the full-time CEO of the ICC after serving in the role on an interim basis for more than eight months. Allardice had taken over the role from Manu Sawhney in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[628,630,629,627],"class_list":{"0":"post-228774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-appoint","9":"tag-ceo","10":"tag-geoff-allardice","11":"tag-icc"},"yoast_head":"\n