MUMBAI: Hailing BCCI secretary Jay Shah, who was elected unopposed as the subsequent chairman of the Worldwide Cricket Council on Tuesday, cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar instructed TOI that “it gained’t be a shock if the world sport thrives much more throughout his time period because the ICC chairman.”
The 35-year-old is the youngest-ever to take over the celebrated place.
Reacting to Shah succeeding Greg Barclay within the ICC prime submit, Gavaskar instructed this paper: “That’s great information. All of the ICC presidents from India have taken the sport ahead and introduced extra revenues for the ICC and with it for the opposite member international locations. If one leaves political biases apart, one will agree that Jay Shah has taken large steps for Indian cricket.”Itemizing out Shah’s achievements because the BCCI secretary from 2019, Gavaskar mentioned, “He was primarily instrumental in getting the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) off the bottom, made the Indian ladies worldwide cricketers’ charges on par with the Indian males’s crew, elevated the pension for retired cricketers, introduced in incentives for being obtainable for Take a look at and white-ball internationals and launched prize cash for the home tournaments. The brand new state-of-the-art Nationwide Cricket Academy (NCA, in Bangalore) has additionally come about throughout his tenure.”
The 35-year-old is the youngest-ever to take over the celebrated place.
Reacting to Shah succeeding Greg Barclay within the ICC prime submit, Gavaskar instructed this paper: “That’s great information. All of the ICC presidents from India have taken the sport ahead and introduced extra revenues for the ICC and with it for the opposite member international locations. If one leaves political biases apart, one will agree that Jay Shah has taken large steps for Indian cricket.”Itemizing out Shah’s achievements because the BCCI secretary from 2019, Gavaskar mentioned, “He was primarily instrumental in getting the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) off the bottom, made the Indian ladies worldwide cricketers’ charges on par with the Indian males’s crew, elevated the pension for retired cricketers, introduced in incentives for being obtainable for Take a look at and white-ball internationals and launched prize cash for the home tournaments. The brand new state-of-the-art Nationwide Cricket Academy (NCA, in Bangalore) has additionally come about throughout his tenure.”
“With all this in entrance of us it gained’t be a shock if the world sport thrives much more throughout his time period because the ICC chairman,” Gavaskar concluded.
