Ehsan Mani (

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(ICC) and former Chairman of

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(PCB).

Early life

Mani was born in Rawalpindi

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into a

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family. His early life was spent in Pakistan playing for the Rawalpindi Club and

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XI from 1959 to 1965 as a right-hand batsman and a left-arm fast medium bowler before moving to the

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to complete his further studies. He is member of

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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

(PCB) in the ICC. For the

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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 played in

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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 Michael Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, (24 December 19324 December 2000) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University Cricket Club, Oxford University (1952–1954), Kent County Cricket Club (1950–1976) an ...

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 Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...

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.

References

External links

Ehsan Mani
ICC official site.

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