Jay Shah, ICC President and former BCCI Secretary, has been included in the new advisory board of the Marylabon Cricket Club (MCC), World Cricket Connects. Apart from that, Sourav Ganguly has also been included.
This is an independent group. The World Cricket Connects Advisory Board will discuss the challenges and problems against the game at a meeting held at Lords 7 and 8. Jay Shah officially took over as the ICC Chairman on December 1 last year.
The World Cricket Connects Board has 13 members. It will be chaired by former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara. Other founding members include Sourav Ganguly, Graeme Smith, Andrew Strauss and captain Heather Knight, captain of the women's team from England.
The World Cricket Connects Forum was inaugurated last year The MCC inaugurated the World Cricket Connects Forum last year. More than 100 cricketers participated in the program to discuss the game. Jay Shah did not attend the program. Mark Nichols, president of the MCC, said: “We look forward to welcoming many influential persons in the game to discuss the most important topics dominated by world cricket.”
World Cricket Connects Advisory Board will replace the World Cricket Committee World Cricket Connects Advisory Board will replace the World Cricket Committee. The World Cricket Committee was formed in 2006. The last meeting of this committee was held in the summer last year.
The World Cricket Committee was an independent organization that had no formal powers, but its recommendations have been adopted several times by the ICC. These include DRS, World Test Championship, Day-Night introduction in Test cricket and use of shot clock to improve slow over-rate.
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