Greg Barclay gets second term as ICC chairman

Greg Barclay gets second term as ICC chairman

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Category : Sports Published on: November 15 2022

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  • Greg Barclay has been unanimously re-elected as chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) for a second two-year term.
  • Barclay, an Auckland-based commercial lawyer, was originally appointed as the ICC Chair in November 2020.
  • He was previously the Chair of New Zealand Cricket (NZC) and was a director of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2015.
  • Besides Barclay's re-election, BCCI secretary Jay Shah was elected as the head of ICC’s Finance and Commercial Affairs (F&CA) committee at the board meeting.
  • Former BCCI president Sourav Ganguly was a member of the F&CA committee till last year.
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