JOHANNESBURG, Jan 14: Former Test player Dave Richardson is to accept a top post with the International Cricket Council (ICC), he said Monday.

Richardson, South Africa’s wicket-keeper in 42 Test matches after the end of the country’s apartheid induced isolation from world cricket, is to be appointed to a newly-created position of ICC general manager (cricket).

“I believe that (ICC chief executive) Malcolm Speed identified a slight credibility problem for the ICC because of the lack of ex-players involved in the administering of the game, so that is why I have been appointed,” Richardson told South African-based website Super Cricket.

“There isn’t much that doesn’t fall into my portfolio,” Richardson was quoted as saying. “Disciplinary procedures, playing conditions, law changes, prize money, match fees and allowances and the Test championship — not to mention a method of structuring the international one-day game into a formatted championship.”—Reuters