Anil Kumble appointed ICC cricket committee chairman – Cricket News Update
Former India captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964,
who will be coming in to replace http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ian-Emlyn-Bishop-c63832.
“In Anil Kumble, we have a new chairman who has unquestioned experience not only as a player with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alan-Raymond-Isaac-c42771. “I am sure that he will carry on Clive's good work
and bring, like Andrew Strauss, contemporary thinking to the committee as both understand clearly the issues facing the modern game.”
The ICC’s media release stated that Kumble’s nomination had been “unanimously” agreed upon at a meeting of the ICC board in Colombo this week.
The appointment as the new chairman sees Kumble succeeding the West Indian Clive Lloyd, who had headed the committee since 2008, to become the second Indian committee head after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Manohar-Gavaskar-c91863. The new post is one among the many Kumble now holds, having
been appointed head of the BCCI’s technical committee, alongside serving as the president of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Karnataka-c801 State Cricket Association – a post he took up almost immediately after retiring from cricket in 2008.
Strauss, meanwhile, who relinquished his post as England’s Test captain in addition to announcing his retirement from all forms of cricket earlier this year, comes in after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bishop-c48135 voluntarily stepped down and nominated Strauss in his stead – a move which
was duly accepted by the ICC. Other developments include one-year extensions being granted to two current members of the panel – ICC statistician David Kendix, and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 skipper.
In addition to balancing a host of responsibilities, the committee is in charge of suggesting changes in the rules which apply to the different formats of cricket, in order to increase the appeal of the sport, and keep its laws streamlined.
The latest changes to be recommended by the committee included the scrapping of the bowling Powerplay, increasing the bouncers permitted in an ODI over to two, and cutting down the number of fielders permitted outside the 30-yard circle from five to four.
These changed were then ratified in June by the ICC's chief executives committee.
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