Jay Shah has been elected unopposed as the new ICC chair.Jay Shah takes over from Greg Barclay and was elected with no other candidates standing against him. He will assume his duties on the 1st of December Jay is 35 years old and still secretary of BCCI; hence he is the youngest office holder in the history of that association.
Jay Shah named unchallenged as the new ICC chair. The board of directors had however until August 27 to file nominations for the next chair only if two or more candidates were nominated was there to be an election, in this case, Shah was the only nominee. Shah was however gracious enough to say ‘I am greatly honored to be nominated for the position of Chairman of International Cricket Council.
Jay Shah elected unopposed as the new ICC chair.
In any case, I am ready to engage as much as possible with the ICC leadership and the national governing bodies to popularize the sport,’ said Shah in ICC release.
“We are at a point where we need to arm ourselves with the promotion of multiple formats, the advancement of technologies and the expansion of our flagship events to new global targets. Our objective is to reinvent the game of cricket in the most diversified and embraced fashion ever.
“While we will leverage the most useful lessons, we also have to fight against the traditionalism and the conservatism that hinders the further popularization of cricket worldwide.
The inclusion of cricket in the Olympics at LA 2028 represents an unprecedented tipping point for the further development of this sport regardless of how.
It was in 2022 that he became a part of the ICC’s influential Finance & Commercial Affairs (F&CA) committee and took over as its chair in 2023. Shah was also re-elected as BCCI secretary in 2022 and his tenure was to run until 2025.
Once he takes over as the ICC chair, he will have to relinquish his position at the BCCI and at the ICC’s F&CA committee. Shah was also the Asian Cricket Council president from 2021 to 2024.
