Company director Jacquie Hey is poised to become the first woman on the Cricket Australia board.
But former Test captain Mark Taylor was overlooked for a seat.
Hey is one of three unanimous recommendations by the current board to take new independent positions on the restructured board.
She is the former managing director of telecommunications company Ericsson in Australia and New Zealand.
Hey is currently a non-executive director at the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and holds the same position at public broadcaster SBS.
The other recommendations for the independent seats are Rio Tinto managing director David Peever and former company chief executive Kevin Roberts, who was also a middle-order batsman for New South Wales.
Taylor was also a former Cricket NSW board member and he had applied for one of the independent positions.
State associations will vote on the three independent candidates at Cricket Australia’s AGM on October 25, with a two-thirds majority needed.
The new board structure follows a governance review of Cricket Australia.
State delegates made up the old board of 14 directors, but it is now down to nine – the three independent directors, plus one member from each state.
Cricket Australia plans to make the board completely independent over the next five years.