Former Australia Prime Minister John Howard will not step aside as the nominee for the International Cricket Council's vice-presidency despite being snubbed by the body on Wednesday. Howard said he has been given no indication as to why his candidacy was blocked by a reported six of the 10 major cricketing nations at the ICC's meeting in Singapore.
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard appeared for an interview for ICC vice-president's job which will be left vacant after India's Sharad Pawar takes charge as chief of the cricket governing body in June, according to a report.
Incoming International Cricket Council (ICC) president Sharad Pawar does not want former Australian Prime Minister and cricket aficionado John Howard as his deputy in the interim.
New Zealand Cricket chief Justin Vaughan says the nomination of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard for the ICC vice President's post was regrettable considering the furore it created.
Former Australia Prime Minister John Howard has been nominated by the Australian and New Zealand boards to serve as International Cricket Council (ICC) president from 2012.
Presiding over the third Atal Bihari Vajpayee memorial lecture that was delivered by former Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan in New Delhi, Jaishankar also hailed Vajpayee's stint as an external affairs minister, and his role in strengthening India's ties with the United States and Russia.
Australian Opposition parties have been quick in taking a tough stand against Prime Minister John Howard for his 'recklessness.'
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New Zealand Cricket has proposed its chairman, eminent businessman and corporate governance practitioner, Alan Isaac, for the role and Cricket Australia will support that nomination.
Sharad Pawar on Friday arrived from Singapore after formally taking over as the ICC President and rubbished suggestions that rejection of John Howard's candidacy for the vice-President's post would divide world cricket.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday confirmed the nomination of Alan Isaac as the Vice-President from 2010-12. Isaac was the nomination of Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket after their previous nomination John Howard was rejected by a few other members.
If John Howard was rejected for inexperience then even Sharad Pawar does not qualify to be the International Cricket Council (ICC) president as he knows "little about cricket administration", said former ICC CEO Malcolm Speed describing the snub to the ex-Australian Prime Minister a "disgrace".
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard's candidature as the International Cricket Council (ICC) vice-president appears to have run into rough weather with the BCCI apparently being reluctant to back him in the executive board meeting on Wednesday.
Amidst strong opposition from the African bloc, John Howard's ambition to become ICC president got a boost on Friday with President-elect Sharad Pawar backing the process of his nomination. Pawar and current president David Morgan issued a joint statement, saying they support the process for nominating the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the ICC, agreed some two years ago.
Former Australia Prime Minister John Howard's dream of becoming ICC president in 2012 suffered a jolt on Thursday as Sri Lanka joined Zimbabwe and South Africa in resisting his nomination for the vice-president's post.
Cricket Australia is likely to drop John Howard as its candidate for the International Cricket Council's president-elect post on Friday, a media report said.
The International Cricket Council on Saturday received another setback in its search of a new Vice President as New Zealand administrator John Anderson has refused to take up the job.
ICC President Sharad Pawar on Thursday said that the rejection of the candidature of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard for the vice-president's post of the world cricket governing body had no racial overtones.
With John Howard's bid thwarted by the Afro-Asian bloc, former Australian captain Mark Taylor could be proposed as an alternate candidate for the International Cricket Council (ICC) vice-president's post by the cricket boards of Australia and New Zealand.
Sharad Pawar had no objection to John Howard's nomination as ICC Vice President but the support for the former Australian Premier started diminishing in the last week which led to his rejection, former ICC chief David Morgan said on Friday.
Former Australian captain Kim Hughes feels rejection of John Howard's candidacy for the ICC vice-president's post has proved that cricket's governing body is a "dysfunctional" organisaton easily swayed by India's financial might.
Cricket's governing body formally proclaimed Sharad Pawar as its new president at the end of the five-day gathering and opened his tenure by sidestepping constant interrogation over the man who would have replaced him if his bid had succeeded.
Former Australia Prime Minister John Howard has failed in his bid to become the next vice-president of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Howard had been nominated for the position by Cricket Australia (CA) and New Zealand Cricket (NZC), who have been asked to put forward another candidate by the ICC.
Set to take over as ICC President from 2012, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has rejected concerns about India's dominance in international cricket, saying the country's enormous stature should not be viewed in a "negative light".
John Howard refuses to blame India for scuttling his bid for the ICC vice-President's job but the former Australian prime minister feels international cricket's financial powerhouse should not be allowed to dominate affairs like it does right now.
Called a "buffoon" by former ICC CEO Malcolm Speed but Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt has refused to react to the stinging comment.
John Howard had called him a chucker but Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan says he has forgiven the former Australian Prime Minister, who has been nominated to take over as ICC President from 2012.
It will be the first time that the security dialogue involving the three countries will be held at the highest level, a development that has clearly made Beijing unhappy.
In his first major economic policy speech since taking over late last year, the Prime Minister described inflation as the "most pressing economic challenge Australia is facing and called the problem as one his administration "inherited" from the previous John Howard government.
Cricket Australia could be hit with a $2 million fine from the International Cricket Council (ICC) if they refuse to tour Zimbabwe as scheduled later this year.
Labour party leader Kevin Rudd, who swept to power nine days ago routing the coalition led by Conservative prime minister John Howard, was on Monday officially sworn in as Australia's 26th prime minister.
Bush said he would not have committed US troops if he had not been convinced the objective was achievable.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Wednesday said the regional governments in his country were "notoriously bad" in running businesses and "delinquent" in handling commercial enterprises
The two countries would be signing an MoU to foster research cooperation in biotechnology, the visiting premier said, addressing Indian industry captains at a conference organised by business chambers CII, FICCI and Assocham. \n\n
Australia's opposition leader Kevin Rudd on Friday said he would "tear up" any nuclear deal with India if he is elected to power this year.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Friday said the "strict safeguards" India has to follow to obtain uranium supplies from Sydney will have the same effect of that country signing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
"We need to have that independent judicial inquiry first to establish all the facts that are currently in the private possession of a number of minister" Rudd added.
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