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Mumbai: ICC President and former BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has been included in the Marylebone Cricket Club’s (MCC) new advisory board, World Cricket Connects. Apart from him, Sourav Ganguly has also been included in it.
This is an independent group. The World Cricket Connects Advisory Board will discuss the challenges and problems facing the game in a meeting to be held at Lord’s on 7 and 8 June. Jay Shah officially took over as ICC Chairman on 1 December last year.
The World Cricket Connects Board consists of 13 members. It 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.
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 this program to discuss about the game. Jai Shah did not attend the event. MCC President Mark Nicholas said, ‘We are looking forward to welcoming many of the most influential persons of the game to debate the most important topics dominating world cricket.’
World Cricket Connects Advisory Board will replace 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 last summer last year.
The World Cricket Committee was an independent body with no formal power, but its recommendations have often been adopted by the ICC. These include DRS, World Test Championship, the introduction of day-night in Test cricket and the use of shot clock to improve slow over-rates.
