Phillip Hodson appointed as the new president of Marylebone Cricket Club
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) have appointed former Cambridge cricketer, Phillip Hodson, as their next president for a one-year term, starting on 1st of October 2011.
Hodson, who is a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867 businessman, will be the first MCC President in the past fifty over to hail from Yorkshire and the fourth overall.
The current president of Marylebone Cricket Club, Mr. Christopher Martin-Jenkins announced the appointment of Hodson at Lord's, on Wednesday during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the club.
Paying tribute to his successor, Martin-Jenkins said that Hodson is a great man who is greatly respected by everyone who knows him or has worked with him.
"I believe that Phillip Hodson will become only the fourth President in a very long line to be what one might call Yorkshire through and through, and he follows three very distinguished presidents indeed in Lord Hawke, Sir Stanley
Jackson and Sir http://www.senore.com/Cricket/William-Worsley-c98024,” said Hodson’s predecessor.
"Phillip is a man greatly respected by everyone who knows him and who has worked with him at the MCC, and he has already been a great servant of this club," he added further.
This won’t be Hodson’s first job with MCC, rather, he has a long and close association with the club. He played his qualifiers for MCC in 1977 and struck a century in just his second game. The right-arm medium pacer was elected as
a club member in 1979. The 60-year-old has played more than 300 games for the club and represented MCC on several tours as well.
In 1987, Hodson joined the players and fixtures sub-committee and was later promoted to the chairman position of the same committee in 1993. He remained the Chairman of MCC players and fixtures sub-committee until 2000.
In his non-cricketing life, Hodson is the Chief Executive of the Oval group, a company he founded way back in 1977. The Oval Group is today one of the biggest privately-held corporate insurance brokers in the United Kingdom (UK).
The company currently sponsors http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Leicestershire-c807 County Cricket Club.
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