Former trade union leader Sir Bill Morris has announced his candidature for the post of ECB chairman. Morris was the general secretary of the transport and general workers union and is an ECB independent member.

He was initially not a candidate to succeed David Morgan, who will become the ICC president, but will contest the second election after the first between former Surrey chairman Mike Soper and Somerset chief executive Giles Clarke ended in a tie with nine votes each.

Soper and Clarke had announced that they will stand again but would be joined by Morris who had been tipped to stand in the first election but didn't.

"Last time I kept reading that I was a candidate but that was not the case," Morris told BBC Sport. "This time, as a first part of the process, I have written to all the county chairmen to say that I would like to stand and become chairman of the ECB."