Confirming what had been on the playing cards for some time, Jay Shah was elected unopposed as the subsequent chair of the Worldwide Cricket Council. The Indian, the son of Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah, will assume his new function on December 1. The 35-year-old will change Greg Barclay and can be the youngest ICC Chair. Right here’s a have a look at his rise and rise in cricket administration.
2009: Entry into administration
Shah’s formal entry into cricket administration got here in 2009 when he began working with the Central Board of Cricket, Ahmedabad (CBCA). He went on to work on the state stage – first as an govt with the Gujarat Cricket Affiliation (GCA). In 2011, he was included within the advertising committee of the BCCI. By the point he was 25, he had risen to the submit of GCA secretary in 2013 and represented the affiliation in the course of the BCCI’s Annual Common Physique assembly. In 2015, Shah is claimed to have payed a key function behind the scenes within the ouster of former BCCI president N Srinivasan. He had backed Anurag Thakur, who pipped Srinivasan’s candidate Sanjay Patel by one vote for the secretary’s submit.
World’s largest stadium
Shah’s first head-turning transfer was on the Gujarat Cricket Affiliation. After taking on because the joint secretary in 2013, when his father was the state unit president, Shah was on the forefront of the formidable revamp of the then Motera Stadium. From the announcement, it was labelled because the world’s largest stadium. And in 2020, the 1,32,000-seater was the venue for the Namaste Trump occasion, the place former US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally. In 2021, the venue hosted its first Check and was renamed the Narendra Modi Stadium.
2019: Rise as BCCI gen-sec
In 2019, got here the large promotion as 31-year-old Shah grew to become BCCI secretary, taking on arguably probably the most highly effective function in all cricket, not simply in India. Whereas Sourav Ganguly’s appointment as BCCI president made the headlines again then, Shah’s ascension was quiet however important. A brand new regime was taking on BCCI after a tumultuous interval that noticed loads of backwards and forwards between the Supreme Courtroom and the Committee of Directors. In 2022, Shah was re-elected unopposed whereas Ganguly made means for Roger Binny.
2020-2021: IPL throughout Covid occasions
The event had its challenges however Shah oversaw that the profitable IPL wouldn’t halt in the course of the pandemic when most international sport got here to a standstill. The 2020 version was performed fully in a bio-secure bubble within the United Arab Emirates. In 2021, the event started in India however needed to be suspended in the course of the lethal wave of Covid-19 circumstances. It resumed later within the yr, as soon as once more within the UAE.
Key measures
After not internet hosting the Ranji Trophy in 2020 and a curtailed model in 2021 due to the pandemic which affected home gamers’ revenue considerably, Shah introduced a brand new fee construction in September 2021. As per the dynamic module, a cricketer who has performed greater than 40 matches in his profession will get a match price of Rs 60,000 per day. Earlier this yr, Shah additionally introduced a brand new plan that can enhance a participant’s match price considerably primarily based on the variety of Checks performed throughout a season. Along with a Check match price of Rs 15 lakh, if somebody performed 75 p.c of the matches in a season, they’d earn an extra Rs 45 lakh per Check match.
2021: Main Asian Cricket Council
Shah was appointed President of the Asian Cricket Council, in a prelude to his rise to the highest of the worldwide sport. He was the youngest President of the ACC too. Later in 2022, Shah grew to become Chairman of the Finance & Business Affairs (F&C) Committee on the ICC.
2022: IPL media rights
Shah’s tenure within the BCCI additionally noticed a record-breaking deal for IPL media rights value Rs 48,390 crore for a five-year interval. The mixed valuation from the bids obtained again then made the IPL the second-most valued sporting league when it comes to per-match worth, behind the USA’s Nationwide Soccer League.
2022-23: WPL and equal match charges
After years of delays and inertia from directors to carry a correct league for feminine cricketers as an alternative of an exhibition event, the Girls’s Premier League grew to become a actuality in late 2022 and early 2023. And instantly, the league began breaking information for ladies’s cricket, ranging from workforce possession bids and media rights valuation, to even participant wages via the inaugural public sale. Additionally late in 2022, BCCI stated ladies cricketers can be paid the identical match price as their male counterparts, in an try to bridge the revenue hole that exists in cricket. This, nevertheless, didn’t change the present central contracts construction. The WPL has now accomplished two profitable seasons.
2024: India’s T20 World Cup win
A lot earlier than there was any readability on India’s squad for the T20 World Cup, Shah – in a press release that signified the ability he wielded within the board – had declared in February that Rohit Sharma can be the captain for the event in america and the West Indies. India went on to win the World Cup, not lengthy after the frustration of dropping the ultimate of the ODI mega occasion in November 2023. The T20 World Cup win marked the tip of India’s 11-year look forward to an ICC title.
