Worldwide Cricket Council chair Jay Shah has joined the Marylebone Cricket Membership’s new international advisory board, which is able to change its world cricket committee.
The board was spawned out of the World Cricket Connects discussion board hosted by the MCC at Lord’s in 2024 when 120 of the main voices within the sport gathered to debate the sport.
The MCC mentioned it needs the board, which is able to meet nearly in the principle, to be a “main symposium” within the sport “to make sure cricket’s future success”.
Indian Shah, 36, grew to become the youngest ever chairman of the ICC when he succeeded New Zealander Greg Barclay in December 2024.
He’s the previous secretary of the Board of Management for Cricket in India and one of the crucial highly effective figures on this planet recreation.
The advisory board might be chaired by former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara, who served as MCC president from October 2019 to September 2021 and was the primary non-British particular person to carry the position.
Former worldwide captains Sir Andrew Strauss and Graeme Smith in addition to present England girls’s captain Heather Knight have additionally accepted presents to affix the advisory board.
MCC chair Mark Nicholas mentioned: “We’ve got assembled a powerful group of the very best 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 good thing about the worldwide recreation.”
Based mostly at Lord’s, which it owns, the MCC acts as custodian and arbiter of the legal guidelines and spirit of cricket.