Jay Shah set to serve two three-year terms as chair after ICC Board recommendation

Jay Shah set to serve two three-year phrases as chair after ICC Board suggestion

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Jay Shah might find yourself being the ICC chair for 2 phrases of three years every as an alternative of three phrases of two years every, which is the present norm, after he takes over on December 1. This after the ICC Board, which met in Dubai over the weekend, advisable that the time period – for the chair and the unbiased director – be modified.

In a press release on Monday, the ICC stated that the advice will now be “circulated for approval” amongst its members, comprising Full and Affiliate Members.

Whereas no cause behind the advice was made public, it’s understood that the transfer is a part of the ICC’s drive for higher governance. The ICC Board believes it should present safety and stability to each the chair and unbiased director, who sit on the ICC Board, with out having to fret about elections each two years. Additionally, whereas the general time period of six years stays the identical, there can be extra continuity.

Shah, who’s 35, was elected unopposed to interchange outgoing ICC chair Greg Barclay, who has served two of his three phrases since being elected in 2020 for the primary time. The unbiased director’s place, in the meantime, has been mendacity vacant since former Pepsico chair Indra Nooyi completed her three phrases earlier this summer time.
There have been adjustments to the ICC males’s cricket committee, too, with New Zealand businessman Scott Weenink appointed Full Member consultant, and Scott Edwardsthe 28-year-old Netherlands captain, named Affiliate Member consultant.

In a press release issued by the Royal Dutch Cricket Affiliation*, Edwards stated, “I’m extraordinarily excited and grateful to have the chance to hitch the ICC Males’s Cricket Committee. Having been within the ICC Affiliate Member system, and enjoying with and towards many Full Member and Affiliate Member sides over the previous six years, I imagine I’ve understanding of the challenges Affiliate international locations and gamers face. I sit up for representing these international locations to the most effective of my means.”

Ladies’s FTP for 2025-2029 to be out quickly

The ICC Board has accredited the subsequent ladies’s future excursions programme (FTP) for the 2025-2029 cycle, which can be introduced in a number of days. It will likely be the second FTP for girls following the one announced in 2022.

The ICC chief executives’ committee (CEC) additionally accredited shifting the calendar for the ladies’s rankings annual replace from October 1 to Could 1 every year. To ensure that the rankings to mirror, the groups should play a minimal of eight matches per format (ODIs and T20Is) versus the six at the moment. That is due to the rise within the quantity of girls’s cricket.

The mechanism for Affiliate groups to realize ODI standing has additionally been formalised. At the moment, there are 16 ladies’s groups with ODI standing. Aside from the 11 Full Members, 5 Affiliate Members – Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, Thailand and USA – have been included in the 2022-2025 cycle. For the 2025-2029 cycle, the top-two Affiliate groups that qualify for the ladies’s ODI World Cup qualifier 2025 will acquire ODI standing, whereas the remaining three slots can be stuffed based mostly on the T20I rankings on the time of annual replace [May 1, 2025]. This can imply that their ODI standing will hinge on their T20I performances.

The creation of two annual T20I tournaments between 2025 and 2028 for Affiliate groups has additionally been accredited. That is to spice up competitors forward of the 16-team ladies’s T20 World Cup in 2030.

* The article was up to date with Scott Edwards’ assertion at 11.55am GMT on October 22, 2024

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