Cricket Australia has summoned 14 of its board members to Melbourne tomorrow to decide on former prime minister John Howard's nomination to the International Cricket Council.

Howard's nomination for the ICC vice-presidency was blocked by a strong alliance of Asian and African nations at an ICC board meeting in Singapore in June.

CA must decide whether to proceed with the nomination, find another Australian, support someone from New Zealand, or let the nomination pass.

The matter, which has caused deep embarrassment to Australian cricket, is deemed so important that a special meeting was called rather than a phone hook-up.

The only certainty appears to be that there is no chance Howard's nomination will be rubber-stamped by the ICC if CA continues to push it forward.

The board of directors is reportedly divided on a course of action and the waters have been further muddied with exceptional New Zealand administrator Sir John Anderson withdrawing his nomination.

Anderson told New Zealand officials that since Howard beat him for the nomination, he has taken on other business board positions.

Howard was projected as Australia and New Zealand's candidate and this is the first time the ICC has rejected a nominee for the vice-presidency.

A CA spokesman said there was no plan to find another candidate.

"At the moment that's a hypothetical question," he said. (ANI)