Lorgat is the next CEO.

Lorgat's appointment was confirmed by the ICC Board following a meeting between the South African and David Morgan, the ICC president-elect, in Pretoria. The International Cricket Council today announced that Haroon Lorgat had been appointed as the organisation’s next Chief Executive Officer.

Mr Lorgat, 47, will take over from the current CEO, Malcolm Speed, following the ICC Annual Conference which is scheduled to take place between 29 June and 4 July.

Mr Lorgat’s appointment was confirmed by the ICC Board following a meeting between the candidate and David Morgan, the ICC President-Elect, in Pretoria on Wednesday.

After that meeting the Recruitment Committee – made up of ICC President Ray Mali, Mr Morgan, ICC Vice President Sharad Pawar and ICC Director Creagh O’Connor (Australia) – agreed to the appointment and made its recommendation to the ICC Board.

Lorgat will become only the third CEO in the ICC’s 99-year history. The first person to occupy the role was David Richards, who held the post from 1993 to 2001.

At present, Lorgat is an executive director of Kapela Investments Holdings, an investment company with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and also a non-executive director of Santam Ltd, a South African commercial and corporate insurance company.

Lorgat also played first-class cricket for Eastern Province and Transvaal as a left-hand batsman and right-arm medium-pacer, scoring 2,813 runs (including three hundreds) and capturing 191 wickets.

Since retiring as a player he has served on the Board of the Western Province Cricket Association and also on finance committees for the United Cricket Board of South Africa and ICC Cricket World Cup 2003.