• BCCI secretary Jay Shah was elected unopposed as the next International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman, making him the youngest ever to reach the pinnacle of global cricket administration.

• The 35-year-old Shah will take over from 62-year-old incumbent Greg Barclay on December 1 after the New Zealander decided against running for a third consecutive term of two years.

• Shah was the sole nominee for the chairmanship.

• Shah, who is the son of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, will relinquish his position in India at the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Annual General Meeting likely to be held towards the end of next month or in October.

• Shah became the fifth Indian after Jagmohan Dalmiya, Sharad Pawar, N. Srinivasan and Shashank Manohar to be elected for the high-profile job.

• Shah’s formal entry into cricket administration was in 2009 when he started working at the district level with the Central Board of Cricket Ahmedabad (CBCA).

• He then moved to state level administration as an executive with the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) and ultimately became its Joint secretary in 2013.

International Cricket Council (ICC)

• The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the global governing body for cricket. 

• Representing 108 member nations, the ICC governs and administrates the game and works with its members to grow the sport. 

• The ICC is responsible for the staging of all ICC events.

• The ICC presides over the ICC Code of Conduct, playing conditions, the Decision Review System and other ICC regulations. 

• It also appoints all match officials that officiate at all sanctioned  international matches.

• Through the Anti-Corruption Unit it coordinates action against corruption and match fixing.

• It was founded on June 15, 1909 as the Imperial Cricket Conference, at Lord’s under the chairmanship of the MCC president, the Earl of Chesterfield. England, South Africa and Australia were its founding members.

• In the late 1920s, regular meetings took place and ICC began to emerge as an organisation. Even then it was still very much an adjunct of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Its chairman was always the MCC president, and the MCC secretary performed the same function for ICC.

• When the Imperial Cricket Conference met in England in 1926, it permitted three new Test playing nations — West Indies, New Zealand and India. 

• India played its first Test match against England on June 25, 1932

• In July 1965, the ICC changed its name to International Cricket Conference.

• The change of name to International Cricket Council came in 1989.

• By 1993, the administrative link with MCC was broken. 

• In August 2005, ICC left its base at Lord’s to set up its new headquarters in Dubai.

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