International Cricket Council chairman Shashank Manohar was expected to step down in June this year. With the ICC’s Board Meeting likely to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he might get a couple of months’ extension.

England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves is likely to replace the former BCCI president. It is also learned that Shashank Manohar has decided will not seeking an extension for his position.

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“This is for sure that Manohar is going but he will probably stay on for another two months as the annual Board Meeting in June looks highly unlikely at the moment considering the global situation. So it might be in August that ICC will have a new chairman,” an anonymous ICC Board member said.

The Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI)  has often considered Shashank Manohar as an antagonist and will remain to wary the Vidarbha lawyer.

“Till Manohar steps down officially, I will not like to believe (anything). Seeing is believing. He still has a term left. If he decides at the last moment that he wants to continue then it will be a different story,” a BCCI member said.

ECB chairman Colin Graves is in the leading race and emerged as the favorite for the position. Colin Graves is supposed to step down from his ECB’s in November 2020.

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“England, New Zealand, Australia, and West Indies will support Graves’ candidature. He also shares a great rapport with BCCI. Although the world’s richest cricket board has not openly supported any candidate,” the Board member said.

People with the knowledge of ICC’s board room politics feel that Graves’  has a big advantage. At this point, Graves’ is expected to have support from all the major Test-playing nations.  This makes him the leading candidate to be ICC’s new chairman.