By IANS
London : Indian cricket chief Sharad Pawar will become the International Cricket Council (ICC) president after England's David Morgan, who takes the chair next year, according to BBC.
According to the BBC website, the tussle between Pawar and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman Morgan has been resolved and it was decided that ECB will take the first turn followed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
The ICC president's post is allotted to a country and not to an individual.
An official announcement is expected to be made when a series of ICC annual meetings end here Friday.
Although the BBC said that Morgan, ECB chairman since 2003, will take over from South Africa's Ray Mali next year and Pawar would succeed him in 2010, at present there is no fixed tenure of ICC chief.
Pawar would complete his three-year term as BCCI president in September next year.
There had been a stand off between Pawar and Morgan even since an ICC appointment's committee failed to choose a clear winner between Pawar and Morgan to take over from South Africa's Percy Sonn, who passed away in office recently. Mali succeeded Sonn.
Since February, the ICC has not been able to resolve the issue, especially as there is no concrete formula to pick presidents.
The impasse over whether Morgan or Pawar should become ICC president began in February when a nominations committee was unable to agree on a name. It prompted a decision to extend then president Sonn's term of office by a year until 2009.
But when Mali was appointed following Sonn's death in May, the search for a compromise was stepped up with a view to a permanent replacement taking over next year.
But a compromise between the two, who met in London Tuesday evening, would see Morgan in charge until 2010, with Pawar succeeding him.
Pawar may have struck a deal with Morgan but must also made sure that things are smooth on his home turf.
Taking over as ICC president in 2010 will see Pawar preside over the 2011 World Cup to be held in the Indian subcontinent as both chairman of the organising committee and the ICC boss.
If Pawar succeeds, he would be the second Indian after Jagmohan Dalmiya to head ICC.
Dalmiya had outsmarted the likes of Inderjit Singh Bindra and late Madhavrao Scindia for the ICC top post soon after the 1996 World Cup in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Scindia was the organising committee (PILCOM) chairman, while Bindra was BCCI president in 1996. Dalmiya was both BCCI and PILCOM secretary and manoeuvred himself into the ICC job, leaving the other two contenders in the cold.
Pawar needs to watch out for just such a move since he will not be holding office in BCCI come 2010 since he will complete his third and final term as BCCI president next year.