‘ICC CEO Sawhney faced 3-layered probe’

New Delhi, March 11 : International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Manu Sawhney, who has been told to go on leave over an ‘adverse’ internal report, was probed on three counts by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), a top professional services firm, sources said.
Sawhney became the fifth Chief Executive of the ICC on April 1, 2019, succeeding David Richardson, a former South Africa Test wicket-keeper.
“PwC’s investigation of Sawhney was three-layered. The first step was at the level of the ICC executive board, which comprises the heads of the national cricket boards, or their nominees, of the Test playing countries and representatives of the ICC Associate Members,” a source told IANS.
“The second level of probe was the interviews of the ICC employees. And the third was an online general inquiry with the employees. For the third step, the employees were sent a form that they had to fill and return. A large majority of the employees filled this form,” he said.
The source also said that Sawhney’s relationship with the ICC employees was far from cordial.
“He would put a lot of pressure on the employees. He would, at times, ask them to deliver the assignment in a very short span of time. Due to this, and some other associated factors, some of the employees suffered from mental depression,” the source said.