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Lord’s reshapes global role as Jay Shah joins new MCC advisory board


ICC president and former BCCI secretary Jay Shah has joined a new Marylebone cricket Club (MCC) advisory board, which will replace the club’s world cricket committee.

Shah was notably absent when MCC hosted the inaugural World cricket Connects forum last year, which brought together more than 100 leading voices at Lord’s to discuss the state of the global game. But he is among the 13 founding members of the new World cricket Connects advisory board, which will be chaired by former MCC president Kumar Sangakkara.
MCC announced on Thursday that the second World cricket Connects forum will take place on June 7-8, before Lord’s hosts the World Test Championship final. MCC chairman Mark Nicholas said: “We look forward to welcoming many of the game’s most influential figures to debate the biggest issues dominating world cricket.”
The new advisory board replaces the world cricket committee, which was formed in 2006 and last met last summer. Other founding members include Sourav Ganguly, Graeme Smith and Andrew Strauss, as well as England women’s captain Heather Knight and JioStar CEO (Sports) Sanjog Gupta.

“An important step has been taken in the formation of the World cricket Connects Advisory Board,” Nicholas said. “We have assembled an impressive group of cricket‘s best minds in a number of different areas relevant to our sport. I am delighted to be working with this experienced group and excited by what we can collectively achieve for the benefit of the global game.”

The world cricket committee was an independent body that had no formal power, but its recommendations were often adopted by the ICC. These have included calls for a Decision Review System, the formation of a World Test Championship, the introduction of day-night Test cricket and the use of a shot clock to improve slow overs.

The new advisory board will meet virtually throughout the year and in person following the symposium at Lord’s. MCC said: “This independent group will shape the annual World cricket Connects agenda, help facilitate event discussions and, in turn, maximize the opportunity to make a genuine impact on the health of the game.”

World cricket Connects Advisory Board Members: Kumar Sangakkara (Chairman), Anurag Dahiya (Chief Business Officer, ICC), Chris Dehring (CEO, CWI), Sourav Ganguly, Sanjog Gupta (CEO, JioStar – Sports), Mel Jones, Heather Knight, Trudy Lindblade (CEO, cricket Scotland), Heath Mills (President of the World Cricketers’ Association), Imtiaz Patel (former president of SuperSport), Jay Shah, Graeme Smith, Andrew Strauss.



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