Top 5 most controversial cricket administrators

Malcolm Speed

Speed held the post of ICC’s Chief Executive as a no nonsense person. He was someone who wanted the gentleman’s game to remain a gentleman’s game and his top priority was the good conduct of players on the field.

But he immediately ran into trouble following the ball tampering episode and his subsequent refusal to remove the match referee Mike Denness, who had banned Sachin for tampering the ball in the previous Test match, from the next match threatened to split the cricketing world into two.

Speed was later ousted from his post following his scathing attack against the Zimbabwe board, which did not find favour with most other member countries.