Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has offered a one-year extension as president to former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara in the "extraordinary circumstances".
When he took over in October last year, Sangakkara became the first non-British president of the MCC, the custodian of cricket's laws.
The disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak prompted the MCC committee to offer the 42-year-old an extension until Sept 30, 2021, a move likely to be approved in its June 24 annual general meeting.
"Whilst Presidents of MCC only normally serve for a twelve-month period, it is not unprecedented for longer terms to be introduced to respond to extraordinary circumstances," MCC said in a statement, citing the stints of Lord Hawke (1914-18) and Stanley Christopherson (1939-45).
