Jay Shah ICC / Greg Barkley becomes ICC chairman, Jai Shah gets the key to the vault of world cricket

Jay Shah ICC: Greg Barclay was elected as the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the second consecutive term without any opposition. Obviously, the powerful Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has a big contribution in New Zealand's Barclay's selection for a second consecutive term. In such a situation, special participation of BCCI in ICC was inevitable, which happened. BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has been elected as the head of the powerful Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee of the ICC. Explain that Barclay's tenure will be of two years.

Greg Barclay elected ICC chairman for the second time

In addition to Barclay, Zimbabwe's Tawengwa Mukuhalani was also in the race for the first chairman's post, who later withdrew, allowing Barclay to be elected unopposed. "It is an honor to be re-elected as Chairman of the International Cricket Council and I would like to thank my fellow ICC Directors for their support," Barclay said on his re-appointment.

Jai Shah became the head of the Committee on Finance and Commercial Affairs.

Barkley was made the ICC chairman in November 2020. He was previously the chairman of New Zealand Cricket and the director of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup in 2015. He was elected unopposed which means he also had the support of the BCCI in the 17-member board. Jay Shah has been entrusted with the responsibility of chairing the most important committee of the ICC. This committee makes all major financial policy decisions after which the ICC Board approves them.

The Shah of India will have the key to the vault of the ICC

An ICC source told PTI on the condition of anonymity, “Every member has accepted Jay Shah as the head of the finance and commercial affairs committee. Apart from the ICC chairman, it is an equally powerful sub-committee. The finance and commercial affairs committee is always headed by an ICC board member and Shah's election makes it clear that he will represent the BCCI on the ICC board.

The post of the head of this committee used to be with India during the era of N Srinivasan but during the tenure of Shashank Manohar as the ICC chairman, the strength of the BCCI was greatly reduced. Former BCCI President Sourav Ganguly was a member of this committee till last year.

India is the boss of the business of world cricket

An ICC source said, “India is the trade center of world cricket and more than 70 percent of the sponsors come from this region. Therefore, it is necessary that the Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee of the ICC should always be chaired by the BCCI.