BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has turn into the youngest ICC President as he took over the position from Greg Barclay on Thursday, August 27.
Shah gained the election unopposed and has beforehand labored because the BCCI secretary and the Chairman of the Asian Cricket Council since January 2021.
He’ll begin his stint as the brand new ICC Chairman on December 1. In the meantime, Barclay has refused to proceed for the third time period and his tenure will come to an finish on November 1.
Beforehand there have been experiences that Shah would possibly win the elections unpoosed and the identical precisely occurred.
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“I’m humbled by the nomination because the Chair of the Worldwide Cricket Council,” Shah said on his appointment.
Jay Shah Makes Historical past With His Appointment As ICC Chairman
Jay Shah has been elected unopposed as the following Unbiased Chair of the Worldwide Cricket Council. Shah, who has served as BCCI secretary since October 2019 and Chair of the Asian Cricket Council since January 2021, will assume this position on December 1, 2024 #cricket pic.twitter.com/j3IL2yMHMu
— Gaurav Gupta (@toi_gauravG) August 27, 2024
Shah additional prioritized his assignments upon assuming the place. Selling cricket within the Olympics stays his at first aim because the ICC Chairman.
“I’m dedicated to working carefully with the ICC crew and our member nations to additional globalize cricket. We stand at a essential juncture the place it’s more and more essential to steadiness the coexistence of a number of codecs, promote the adoption of superior applied sciences, and introduce our marquee occasions to new international markets. Our aim is to make cricket extra inclusive and fashionable than ever earlier than.”
“Whereas we’ll construct on the precious classes discovered, we should additionally embrace recent considering and innovation to raise the love for cricket worldwide.
The inclusion of our sport within the Olympics at LA 2028 represents a major inflection level for the expansion of cricket, and I’m assured that it’ll drive the game ahead in unprecedented methods” he stated.
With Jay Shah assuming the position of the ICC Chairman, the BCCI Secretary’s submit now could be presently vacant. Since 2016, as per the brand new guidelines and rules laid out by the ICC, the ICC Chairman is an unbiased submit, and therefore an individual not an elected candidate can’t maintain two positions.
The most important achievement as BCCI Preseint for Jay Shah was that he was capable of eradicate the pay disparity between women and men cricketers.
Beneath his administration, he was capable of give one of the best infrastructure to the Indian gamers and the help employees.
The crew additionally did extremely properly below his reign enjoying the WTC last, ICC World Cup last at house and at last successful the T20 World Cup within the Caribbean earlier this yr in June.
Notably, Jay Shah had predicted earlier this yr in February that Rohit Sharma would lead India to a World Cup win in Barbados and the identical precisely occurred.
In the meantime, Sunil Gavaskar had thrown his help in the direction of Jay Shah earlier than his appointment because the ICC Chairman.
He had criticized the individuals in energy and termed them as perennial cribbers who had tried to assault Jay Shah and make him insecure earlier than he was appointed for the place.
“When Greg Barclay introduced his resolution to not go for a 3rd time period, which he was entitled to, there have been experiences within the media of the Previous Powers that Barclay’s resolution had been pressured by Shah. Solely when the perennial cribbers have been questioned about what the representatives of their Previous Powers have been doing did it immediately happen to them that if certainly Barclay was pressured to not search a 3rd time period, then what have been their very own representatives on the ICC doing on the assembly?” Gavaskar wrote in his column for the Sportstar.
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