PCB, WICB elected to ICC Executive Committee

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi and West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president David Cameron were elected to the five-member Executive Committee of the International Cricket Council (ICC) at its two-day Annual Conference which ended here Saturday under its first chairman Narayanaswami Srinivasan.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA) and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have permanent representation in the Executive Committee while PCB and WICB were elected by the ICC Board to the five-member body.

The committee will be chaired by CA's Wally Edwards and will include BCCI's Srinivasan and ECB's Giles Clarke with ex-officio member ICC Chief Executive David Richardson, who saw his contract getting an extension till June 2016.

Clarke will chair the Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee (F&CA) which will also include Edwards, Srinivasan, Nazmul Hassan (Bangladesh) and Jayantha Dharmadasa (Sri Lanka) with Richardson again an ex-officio member.

Meanwhile, the Governance Review Committee will be chaired by New Zealand's Martin Snedden and will include Peter Chingoka (Zimbabwe), Hassan (Bangladesh), BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel and Imran Khawaja (Singapore) with Srinivasan and Richardson as ex-officio members.

The ICC Board also decided, in consultation with the Chief Executives' Committee (CEC), that members must sign all bilateral agreements till 2023 before the next ICC meeting in October.

During the two-day meet, the ICC Development Committee was reconstituted to emphasise on the strategic importance of developing the game beyond its traditional boundaries.

The committee will be chaired by ICC Chairman and include three Associate Member representatives of the ICC Board, three Associate Member representatives on the ICC CEC and the Affiliate Members' Global Representative. It will also include Full Member Directors Chingoka, Cameron and Snedden as well as Richardson and ICC Head of Global Development Tim Anderson (both ex-officio).