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Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has included ICC President and former BCCI Secretary Jay Shah in its new advisory board, World Cricket Connects.
Jay Shah is one of the 13 founding members of the World Cricket Connects board, which will be chaired by former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara. Other founding members include Sourav Ganguly, Graeme Smith, Andrew Strauss and England women’s team captain Heather Knight. This year, the World Cricket Connects will be held at Lord’s on June 7 and 8, just before the final of the World Test Championship (WTC).
MCC had inaugurated the World Cricket Connects Forum last year. More than 100 cricketers participated in this program to discuss about the game. Jai Shah did not attend this program. MCC Chairman Mark Nicholls said: ‘We look forward to welcoming many of the game’s most influential figures to debate the most important topics dominating world cricket.’
World Cricket Connects Advisory Board will replace the World Cricket Committee The 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. Other founding members include Sourav Ganguly, Graeme Smith and Andrew Strauss as well as England women’s team captain Heather Knight and Sanjog Gupta, CEO (Sports), JioStar.
The World Cricket Committee was an independent body with no formal powers, but its recommendations have often been adopted by the ICC. Was. These include DRS, the World Test Championship, the introduction of day-night in Test cricket and the use of a shot clock to improve slow over-rates.
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