NICK FRIEND: Ramprakash has been proposed by Mike Selvey as his successor in the role of Middlesex president, but that won't prevent the club legend from continuing as the county's batting consultant
The proposal for Mark Ramprakash to succeed Mike Selvey as Middlesex's president won't affect his position as the county's batting consultant, The Cricketer understands.
Ramprakash, a club legend with more than 20,000 runs to his name, has been put forward by current president Selvey to succeed the former England bowler in 2023.
Selvey took on the role in 2019 for a standard two-year term but was allowed to serve two further years in recognition of the complications caused by the pandemic. Ramprakash has accepted the invitation to take on the post, which has to be ratified by Middlesex's members at an AGM in April.
"Selv always says that the president job is to be done how you want to do it and that you have to be the president that you want to be," Alan Coleman, Middlesex's director of cricket, told The Cricketer.
"Ramps can do the president in a slightly different way. He will still be hands-on as batting coach. He's still at Harrow School too. He may well run his presidency in a slightly different way to perhaps what Selv did.
"The president role is for the person to do as they want, but assuming Ramps gets voted through by the members at the AGM, I think he'd be a wonderful figurehead for our club. There is no better person to represent what Middlesex is about than Mark Ramprakash."
Selvey has been in the role since 2019 (Gareth Copley/Getty Images)
He added: "Selv has been a great president for Middlesex around the club and in terms of the support he's given me and our coaching group."
Since last winter, Ramprakash, who played for Middlesex until joining Surrey in 2001 and represented England in 52 Tests, has been back at his first county as a batting consultant and has been widely credited with turning around Middlesex's fortunes as a batting unit in red-ball cricket. Helped by his expertise, they were promoted back to Division One of the County Championship.
That role is set to continue. He was previously the county's batting coach shortly after retiring in 2012, working under Richard Scott. He then served as England's batting coach for five years between 2014 and 2019.
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