Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has not nom­i­nat­ed any­one for the up­com­ing elec­tions of the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) chair­man­ship.

The ICC af­ter months of be­ing un­de­cid­ed about how to go about in­stalling a new chair­man fi­nal­ly set­tled on a path to achieve it. They out­lined that the first step was one where­by cur­rent ICC Board mem­bers had giv­en its mem­ber­ship un­til Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 18) to nom­i­nate can­di­dates for the po­si­tion of chair­man. Af­ter this, the po­ten­tial can­di­date must be sec­ond­ed by an­oth­er board mem­ber be­fore the elec­tions are held.

The ICC has out­lined that the nom­i­nees must be ei­ther a for­mer or cur­rent ICC board mem­ber.

The USA Crick­et Hall of Fame had writ­ten to CWI ask­ing that they nom­i­nate the for­mer pres­i­dent of re­gion­al body Ja­maican Dave Cameron, 49, as chair­man.

How­ev­er, when Guardian Me­dia Sports con­tact­ed CWI vice-pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low, he said this was not done.

Ac­cord­ing to Shal­low: "It did come up for dis­cus­sion and we did not nom­i­nate any­body for the post."

When con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Cameron said that he was not nom­i­nat­ed by any­one.

"I reached out to cer­tain peo­ple but did not hear any­thing from them, so I guess that it is safe to state that I was not nom­i­nat­ed by any­one for the post see­ing that the process that now closed."

Cameron, who lost the pres­i­den­cy of what was then called the West In­dies Crick­et Board to Ricky Sker­ritt in the March 2019 elec­tions – in which he was seek­ing a fourth con­sec­u­tive term said that al­though he is dis­ap­point­ed, he feels it more for the re­gion­al crick­et body.

"CWI needs some­one to seek their in­ter­est and al­so that of the small­er crick­et boards across the world. If not they will just have to be mere by­standers and take what they get. The rea­son I got World Cups to come our way in the Caribbean was that I went in there and fought and de­mand­ed and that is why we got the Women's World Cup a cou­ple of years ago and we are get­ting the Youth World Cup in 2022."

Im­ran Khwa­ja will be the in­ter­im chair­man of ICC un­til elec­tions are held for the post. The de­ci­sion was tak­en by the ICC Board on Wednes­day af­ter in­cum­bent Shashank Manohar stepped down fol­low­ing two terms in the role.

Khwa­ja, who is a for­mer pres­i­dent of the Sin­ga­pore Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion, was elect­ed as ICC's deputy chair­man in 2017, a year af­ter Manohar be­came the glob­al crick­et body's in­au­gur­al in­de­pen­dent chair­man. The deputy chair­man's po­si­tion was part of the new ICC con­sti­tu­tion which came in­to ef­fect from 2017. That con­sti­tu­tion was draft­ed by a five-per­son work­ing group which in­clud­ed Khwa­ja.

A lawyer by pro­fes­sion, Khwa­ja, 64, has been an ever-present but lit­tle-heard fig­ure - pub­licly at least. He re­mains, how­ev­er, a pow­er­ful voice on the ICC Board and is part of sev­er­al in­flu­en­tial com­mit­tees. Cur­rent­ly, the com­mit­tees Khwa­ja sits on in­clude the Fi­nance & Com­mer­cial Af­fairs, Nom­i­na­tions, De­vel­op­ment (chair) and Mem­ber­ship.

It was Khwa­ja who played a sig­nif­i­cant role in con­vinc­ing Manohar to con­tin­ue as ICC chair­man in 2017 af­ter the for­mer BC­CI pres­i­dent had opt­ed to step down even be­fore fin­ish­ing a year in the post. Al­though he is the chair­man of As­so­ciates, Khwa­ja has had a say in sig­nif­i­cant re­forms the ICC car­ried out un­der Manohar's lead­er­ship, in­clud­ing the over­haul of the gov­er­nance struc­ture, the fi­nance mod­el and cre­at­ing a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic struc­ture at the ICC board where even the small­er coun­tries have had a say.

Mean­while, New Zealand Crick­et's Gre­gor Bar­clay and Khwa­ja of Sin­ga­pore are the on­ly two promi­nent names who will be fight­ing for the ICC chair­man's post to re­place Manohar af­ter fil­ing nom­i­na­tions and a one-month win­dow has been kept by the ICC Board to see if it can have a unan­i­mous can­di­date.

"As of now, it looks like there will be an elec­tion be­tween Bar­clay and Khwa­ja, who is ICC's act­ing chair­man. They are the on­ly two who have filed nom­i­na­tions. Both have their share of sup­port from the board," a se­nior of­fi­cial, privy to de­vel­op­ments in ICC Board, told the Press Trust of In­dia (PTI), yes­ter­day.

In a 17-mem­ber ICC board, 16 can cast their vote (17th mem­ber is CEO Manu Sawh­ney with­out vot­ing rights) and as per the ex­ist­ing rules, ei­ther Bar­clay or Khwa­ja would need 11 votes (2/3rd of the board) to be­come the next chair­man.

In case Crick­et South Africa (CSA) gets sus­pend­ed by the ICC over gov­ern­ment in­ter­fer­ence, then the num­ber of vot­ers will come down to 15.

How­ev­er, in case Bar­clay fails to get 11 votes, Khwa­ja will con­tin­ue as the act­ing chair­man of the ICC. A lot of ma­jor Test-play­ing na­tions are ex­pect­ed to ral­ly be­hind Bar­clay.

Mean­while, Col­in Graves, the for­mer Eng­land and Wales Crick­et Board (ECB) chair­man was the favourite to be­come the next ICC chief, how­ev­er, he didn't file his nom­i­na­tion af­ter he learnt that he was not a unan­i­mous choice and he al­so did not com­mand the num­bers of re­quired votes to win to get elect­ed.

There is a buzz that the BC­CI will lend sup­port to Bar­clay against Khwa­ja, who is known to be close to a for­mer ICC head, who will ac­tive­ly take in­ter­est in the elec­tion if it hap­pens.