Former Test captain Mark Taylor has downplayed his chances of leading Cricket Australia, with interim chairman Earl Eddings favourite to take over after the organisation was rocked by a ball-tampering scandal.
Taylor was tipped for the hotseat after former chairman David Peever quit Thursday under intense pressure following a scathing review which partly blamed CA for the damaging 'sandpaper-gate' episode.
The respected 'Tubby' Taylor, a current board member, was endorsed by former CA chief executive Malcolm Speed. But he cited a conflict of interest in seemingly ruling himself out.
"Given my media role, I don't believe being chairman would be appropriate," he was quoted as saying by Channel Nine, having recently signed a new contract with the broadcaster which has the rights to the World Cup and Ashes series in 2019.
Taylor's long-time former teammate Ian Healy said he would be "a very good chairman", but the time wasn't right.
"I just think he might be a victim, Tubby, in that anyone who presided over that culture when the Longstaff review was handed down, how can we make them chairman?" Healy said.
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Another ex-Test player and current board member, Michael Kasprowicz, could get the nod if CA heeds the call from Speed for a "dyed-in-the-wool cricket" leader to assume the role.
But Australian media suggested Peever's deputy Eddings, who has a corporate background as managing director of a risk-management company, was the frontrunner.
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