ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) chairperson, Peter Chingoka was appointed to sit on two International Cricket Council (ICC) sub-committees during the cricket world governing body’s annual conference in Melbourne, Australia at the weekend. SPORTS REPORTER
The long-serving ZC boss will sit on the ICC’s governance review committee to be chaired by Martin Snedden of New Zealand.
Other members of the committee include Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan, Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Sanjay Patel and Imran Khawaja (Singapore).
New ICC chairman Narayanaswami Srinivasan and the cricket’s world governing body’s chief executive David Richardson will be ex-officio members of the committee.
Chingoka was appointed to the ICC development committee which was reconstituted to emphasise the strategic importance of developing the game beyond its traditional boundaries.
The committee will be chaired by the ICC chairperson Srinivasan and include three associate member representatives of the ICC board, the three associate member representatives on the ICC chief executives’ committee and the affiliate members’ global representative.
It will also include the full member directors Chingoka, West Indies Cricket board president, Dave Cameron (West Indies) and Snedden (New Zealand) as well as Richardson and ICC head of global development Tim Anderson (both ex-officio).
The ICC annual conference saw WICB’s Cameron and Pakistan board chairman Najam Sethi being awarded seats on the ICC’s new executive committee while South Africa was snubbed from the game’s new world order.
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The five-member executive committee is one of a raft of sweeping reforms that have entrenched cricket’s dominant economic powers India, England and Australia and, according to critics, at the expense of weaker ICC members and second-tier Associate nations.
Australian Wally Edwards will chair the committee which includes ICC chairman Srinivasan of India and England’s Giles Clarke.
ICC chief executive David Richardson, whose contract has been renewed for another two years, will serve as an ex-officio member of the committee.
