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Lord’s reshapes international position as Jay Shah joins new MCC advisory board

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Jay Shah, the ICC chair and ex-secretary of the BCCI, has joined a brand new Marylebone Cricket Membership (MCC) advisory board, which is able to substitute the membership’s world cricket committee.

Shah was a notable absentee when MCC staged the inaugural World Cricket Connects discussion board final yr, which noticed over 100 main voices collect at Lord’s to debate the state of the worldwide recreation. However he’s amongst 13 founding members of the brand new World Cricket Connects advisory board, which will likely be chaired by former MCC president Kumar Sangakkara.
MCC introduced on Thursday that the second World Cricket Connects discussion board will likely be staged on June 7 and eight, earlier than Lord’s hosts the World Take a look at Championship remaining. MCC chair Mark Nicholas mentioned: “We’re trying ahead to welcoming lots of the recreation’s most influential figures to debate an important subjects that dominate international cricket.”
The brand new advisory board replaces the world cricket committee, which fashioned in 2006 and met for the ultimate time final summer time. Different founding members embody Sourav Ganguly, Graeme Smith and Andrew Strauss, in addition to England girls’s captain Heather Knight and JioStar’s CEO (Sports activities), Sanjog Gupta.

“An vital step has been made within the forming of the World Cricket Connects Advisory Board,” Nicholas mentioned. “We’ve assembled a formidable group of the perfect minds in cricket throughout a number of completely different areas related to our sport. I’m delighted to be working with this skilled group and enthusiastic about what we will collectively obtain for the advantage of the worldwide recreation.”

The world cricket committee was an unbiased physique which didn’t maintain any formal energy, however its suggestions have typically been adopted by the ICC. These have included requires a Determination Overview System, the formation of a World Take a look at Championship, the introduction of day-night Take a look at cricket, and using a shot clock to enhance sluggish over-rates,

The brand new advisory board will meet nearly all year long, and in particular person after the symposium at Lord’s. MCC mentioned: “This unbiased group will form the annual World Cricket Connects agenda, assist facilitate the occasion’s discussions and in flip maximise the chance for real affect on the well being of the sport.”

World Cricket Connects advisory board members: Kumar Sangakkara (chair), Anurag Dahiya (ICC chief business officer), Chris Dehring (CWI CEO), Sourav Ganguly, Sanjog Gupta (JioStar CEO – Sports activities), Mel Jones, Heather Knight, Trudy Lindblade (Cricket Scotland CEO), Heath Mills (World Cricketers’ Affiliation chair), Imtiaz Patel (Former SuperSport chair), Jay Shah, Graeme Smith, Andrew Strauss.


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