Jai Shah’s tenure as ICC President has begun, read full details

Jai Shah has taken over as the new chairman of ICC. Along with this, a special achievement has also been registered in his name. Shah also became the youngest person to become the president of the ICC. His age is only 35 years. Before this he was working as BCCI Secretary.

Jay Shah is replacing Greg Barkley
Jay Shah replaces former ICC president Greg Barkley. Barclay belonged to New Zealand. You will be surprised to know that Shah is only the 5th person to hold any important post in the country. Before him, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Sharad Pawar, Shashank Manohar and industrialist N Srinivasan have reached this stage.

The first challenge in front of Jai Shah is the Champions Trophy
Home Minister Amit Shah’s son Jai Shah’s first challenge is the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy. It will be very interesting to see how he gets rid of this problem. As PCB is adamant that India should visit Pakistan, Team India does not want to visit Pakistan due to security issues.

What did Jai Shah say after being elected as President?
Earlier, after being elected ICC Chairman, Shah had said, ‘Thank you all for electing me ICC Chairman. I will work to promote cricket all over the world. At present all formats need to be carried forward. I will add some new technology to the game. My effort will always be to make this game popular.