Imran Khwaja, Mubashshir Usmani, and Mahinda Vallipuram Elected as ICC Associate Member Directors
New Delhi [India], July 19: Imran Khwaja, Mubashshir Usmani, and Mahinda Vallipuram have been elected as ICC Associate Member Directors following an election process at the ICC Annual Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The voting was conducted at the Formal Associate Members meeting by way of a weighted secret ballot, where each Voting Associate Member and each Regional Representative had three votes.
Imran Khwaja was re-elected as Associate Member Representative on the Board, with Mubashshir Usmani and Mahinda Vallipuram replacing Pankaj Khimji and Neil Speight.
ICC Chair Greg Barclay commented on the election: “I would like to welcome the elected Associate Member Directors onto the Board for the next term. I look forward to working with Imran, Mubashshir and Mahinda to continue to push the sport forward by delivering the strategy and growing the game so that more people can enjoy cricket across the world.”
The result will trigger an election in October for Mubashshir Usmani’s position on the Chief Executives’ Committee, as he is unable to hold both positions.
Doubts Revealed
Imran Khwaja -: Imran Khwaja is a person who helps make important decisions for cricket, especially for countries that are not the main cricket-playing nations.
Mubashshir Usmani -: Mubashshir Usmani is another person who has been chosen to help make important decisions for cricket in smaller cricket-playing countries.
Mahinda Vallipuram -: Mahinda Vallipuram is also a person who will help make decisions for cricket in countries where cricket is still growing.
ICC -: ICC stands for International Cricket Council. It is the organization that looks after the game of cricket all around the world.
Associate Member Directors -: These are people who help the ICC make decisions for countries where cricket is not as popular as in India or Australia.
ICC Annual Conference -: This is a big meeting where important people in cricket come together to discuss and make decisions about the sport.
Colombo, Sri Lanka -: Colombo is the capital city of Sri Lanka, a country in South Asia. It is where the ICC Annual Conference was held.
Pankaj Khimji -: Pankaj Khimji is a person who used to help make decisions for cricket but has now been replaced.
Neil Speight -: Neil Speight is another person who used to help make decisions for cricket but has now been replaced.
Greg Barclay -: Greg Barclay is the current head of the ICC, the organization that manages cricket worldwide.
