International Cricket Council
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(ICC) and former Chairman of
Pakistan Cricket Board
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(PCB).
Early life
Mani was born in
Rawalpindi
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Pakistan
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into a
Pashtun
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family. His early life was spent in Pakistan playing for the Rawalpindi Club and
Government College Lahore
The Government College University, Lahore (colloquially known as GCU), is a public research university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Opened as Government College, Lahore, in 1864, it became a university in 2002.
Overview
In 1864, Gov ...
XI from 1959 to 1965 as a right-hand batsman and a left-arm
fast medium
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bowler before moving to the
United Kingdom
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to complete his further studies. He is member of
ICAEW
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(Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) and is a Chartered Accountant by profession. He has resided in the UK since late 1960s.
Cricket administrator
From 1989 to 1996, Mani represented the
Pakistan Cricket Board
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(PCB) in the ICC. For the
1996 Cricket World Cup
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, he was on the advisory committee as the PCB representative. He was also on the same committee during the
1999 Cricket World Cup
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played in
England
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. In 1996, he was elected by the ICC member nations to the position of Chairman of the ICC Finance and Marketing Committee. He held this position until this committee 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
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and
Sir Clyde Walcott
Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott Knight or Dame of St. Andrew (Barbados), KA, Gold Crown of Merit, GCM, OBE (17 January 1926 – 26 August 2006) was a West Indies cricket team, West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other ...
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 companies mostly banking and real-estate. He is also the chairman of Galiyat Development Authority (KP), member of board of governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust and member of board of directors of Biafo Industries Ltd in Pakistan. He is also trustee of a number of charities in UK and Pakistan.
On 20 August 2018, Prime Minister
Imran Khan
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nominated Ehsan Mani as PCB Chairman. On 4 September 2018, he was elected unopposed as PCB Chairman by the PCB's Board of Governors for a period of three years.