 Receiving a Spirit of Cricket Award on behalf of the ECB in Mumbai |
David Morgan has been re-elected unopposed as the England and Wales Cricket Board chairman for a further two-year term of office. Morgan, who has held the role since 2003, begins his new stint next April.
The Welshman said: "It is a great honour to be re-elected. I thank the counties for their support."
He said he was keen to develop plans for the Twenty20 World Championship to be held in England and Wales in 2009 and build the ECB's community projects.
Under Morgan's leadership, the ECB has attracted fierce criticism for approving the sale of TV rights to BSkyB in a �220m deal lasting until 2009.
It means no live cricket will be shown on terrestrial TV during that time.
Morgan has also called for an end to the two-division structure of the County Championship - but he has not managed to get the first-class counties to agree to his plan.
In 2004, he chose not to pull the England team out of a controversial tour to Zimbabwe when 13 journalists were initially refused permission to enter the country.
The Zimbabwe government relented and the one-day series was played.
After that tour, Morgan said he preferred to keep a low profile.
ECB chief executive David Collier said: "David is an outstanding chairman who is widely respected throughout the cricket world."
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