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In all likelihood, Jay Shah will be the next ICC president. As he has done for Indian cricket, players around the world, both men and women, will benefit- Sunil Gavaskar
The second term of the current ICC chairman Greg Barclay ends in November 2024. Barclay does not want to become the ICC president for the third consecutive time. The news of BCCI secretary Jay Shah becoming the next ICC chairman has intensified. Let us tell you, questions are also being raised on Jay Shah that he has forced Barclay not to consider a third term.
Meanwhile, former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar spoke openly on the matter and blamed the ‘Old Powers’ of cricket for tarnishing the image of Jay Shah. Gavaskar also stressed that Jay Shah’s becoming the ICC President will have a positive impact on World Cup cricket as it has on Indian cricket.
Sunil Gavaskar got angry on the ‘Old Powers’ of cricket
Former Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar wrote in his column on Sportstar,
In all likelihood, Jay Shah will be the next ICC President. As he has done for Indian cricket, players around the world, both male and female, will benefit. When Greg Barclay announced his decision not to go for a third term, which he deserved, there were reports in the ‘Old Powers’ media that Jay Shah had forced Barclay’s decision.
Gavaskar further wrote,
When the perennial cribbers were questioned about what their representatives of the ‘Old Powers’ were doing, it suddenly occurred to them that if Barclay was indeed forced not to seek a third term, what were their own representatives at the ICC doing at the meeting. Where were their voices of disapproval? And if there were none, they were equally guilty of pointing fingers. This is called the ‘Tall Poppy Syndrome’ (criticising a person because of his success) and also the realisation that they no longer run international cricket.”
Jay Shah has done a great job as BCCI secretary. He played a key role in introducing equal pay for men’s and women’s cricket in India. He also recently announced a system to promote red-ball cricket and also announced prize money for Player of the Match and Player of the Tournament in all women’s and junior cricket tournaments.
AUS vs IND 2024-25: Umpire Simon Taufel made special comment on KL Rahul’s controversial DRS out in Perth Test
There is a special discussion in the cricket world regarding Rahul’s dismissal. Australia vs India, 1st Test (Image Credit- Twitter X) India is facing Australia in the first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series from November 22 at the Optus Stadium in Perth. In the match, stand-in captain Jasprit Bumrah has won the toss and decided to bat first, which has not proved right for the team. However, there is a lot of discussion in the cricket world about the way experienced batsman KL Rahul was out in the match. After defending a lot of the ball, Rahul was slowly building his innings, but he was unfortunately given out in the 23rd over of the Indian innings. Mitchell Starc came to bowl this over of the Indian innings for Australia and in this over, he bowled the second ball of length to Rahul, which went very close to the bat. During this, other players including the bowler appealed, but the onfield umpire did not give the player out. But during this, captain Pat Cummins took DRS review and the third umpire gave Rahul out. But in UltraEdge it was clearly seen that the ball had hit the pad saved from the bat. On the other hand, now experienced umpire Simon Taufel has reacted to Rahul’s DRS out. Simon Taufel reacts to Rahul’s DRS out Let us tell you that Simon Taufel, while discussing with 7 Cricket about Rahul’s dismissal in the Perth Test, said – We saw in that side on shot that there was a spike on the RTS and the bat was away from the pad, in other words the bat. The lower part did not reach the pad. So rotating it in its natural course, you would have seen the second spike (on the sneako, to indicate the bat hitting the pad) come in more than if it had been rotated all the way. So former cricketer Matthew Hayden, who was commenting during this time, said – We are assuming that (Snikko) could be the outer edge of the bat, but it cannot be so. Well, the umpire’s decision is the final decision, and the player cannot protest against it. Due to this decision of the umpire, Rahul had to return to the pavilion after being out on the score of 26 runs in 74 balls.
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