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Sports Top 10: After taking Indian cricket to new heights, Jai Shah has turned his attention towards ICC. Now Jai Shah will take over the responsibility of the new chairman of ICC from December 2024. Jai Shah has been made the new chairman of ICC for the next two years. Jai Shah will replace the current chairman of ICC, Greg Barclay, who became the chairman of ICC in the year 2020. Greg Barclay was the chairman of ICC for two consecutive terms. After being elected chairman in 2020, he was again elected unopposed in 2022. At the same time, after the updated schedule of ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 to be held in UAE in the month of October was announced, the Indian team for this mega event has also been announced.
Jay Shah was elected unopposed as the next chairman of ICC
Current BCCI Secretary Jay Shah will now start his next innings as the new chairman of the ICC after leaving the board in December. Jay Shah will start his term as president from December 1, 2024. Jay Shah became the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2019 and has served the BCCI for almost 6 years. Jay Shah has been unanimously elected as the next chairman of the ICC.
Indian team will play in T20 World Cup 2024 under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur
The Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 is to be held in the UAE and now the Indian women’s team squad has been announced for this. While Harmanpreet Kaur will captain the team, Smriti Mandhana has got the responsibility of vice-captaincy. The Indian women’s team will start its campaign in the upcoming T20 World Cup with a match against New Zealand from October 4.
Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shefali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Yastika Bhatia, Pooja Vastrakar, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Shobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sanjana Sajeevan, Arundhati Reddy.
Traveling Reserve: Uma Chhetri, Tanuja Kanwar, Saima Thakor.
Before Jay Shah, 4 other Indians have held the responsibility of the post of ICC Chairman
After working for BCCI for 6 consecutive years, he has now turned his attention towards ICC. Jay Shah has been elected as the new chairman of ICC. Jay Shah is the youngest person to hold this post. He became the chairman of ICC at the age of just 35. Before Jay Shah, 4 other Indians have held the responsibility of ICC chairman, including Jagmohan Dalmiya, Sharad Pawar, N Srinivasan and Shashank Manohar.
Mohammed Siraj and Ravindra Jadeja will not play in Duleep Trophy 2025
Duleep Trophy 2024 is starting from 5th September. This time a total of four teams will participate in the tournament. The squads of all the four teams were already announced by the BCCI. But now there have been big changes even before the start of the Duleep Trophy. Fast bowlers Mohammed Shami and Umran Malik have been ruled out due to injury. At the same time, Ravindra Jadeja has been released. Both Mohammad Siraj and Umran Malik are battling illness and are not expected to be fit in time for the Duleep Trophy matches. Navdeep Saini has been given a chance in place of Siraj and Gaurav Yadav in place of Umran.
England announced their squad for Women’s T20 World Cup
England’s women’s cricket team has been announced for the T20 World Cup 2024. The Women’s T20 World Cup is to be held in the UAE in the month of October this year, for which England has announced a 15-member team. Wicketkeeper-batsman Bess Heath and all-rounder Freya Kemp have been selected in the T20 World Cup team for the first time. The England team will play its first match against Bangladesh on 5 October.
Heather Knight (captain), Lauren Bell, Maya Bouchier, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Danielle Gibson, Sarah Glenn, Bess Heath, Amy Jones, Freya Kemp, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Linsey Smith, Danni Wyatt.
Bangladesh Cricket Board has now given a statement on the FIR filed against Shakib Al Hasan
The Bangladesh cricket team’s tour of Pakistan was in trouble due to the recent protests and violence in Bangladesh, but somehow the team players managed to reach Pakistan before the scheduled time. Hundreds of people were killed amid the protests in Bangladesh. After this, the name of former MP and 37-year-old former captain Shakib Al Hasan was included in the 147 people against whom charges were filed for alleged murder during the protests in early August. After Shakib’s name got involved in the murder case, Bangladesh Cricket Board President Farooq Ahmed said on August 24 that they will take a decision about Shakib Al Hasan’s future after the ongoing Test match against Pakistan.
Harmanpreet Kaur gave a big statement after the announcement of the team
After the announcement of the team for the upcoming T20 World Cup, Indian women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur said that her team is taking inspiration from the Indian men’s team, which won the T20 World Cup in June this year. Harmanpreet said that the men’s team worked very hard for this trophy and won tough matches, from which the women’s team has learned a lot. Her team is also on the same path and is preparing for the upcoming Women’s T20 World Cup. She said that the team’s aim is to give their country and fans another chance to celebrate.
England announced their playing 11 for the Lord’s Test match against Sri Lanka
A three-match Test series is being played between England and Sri Lanka. The England team won the first match of this series by 5 wickets. England has announced its playing 11 for the next match of the series against Sri Lanka. For this match, the England team has made only one change in its playing 11. Injured Mark Wood will not play the second Test match against Sri Lanka. He has been given rest. Fast bowler Ollie Stone has been included in this match in his place. Right-arm fast bowler Stone last played for England in the home series against New Zealand in June 2021. He has played only three Test matches for the English team.
West Indies clean sweep the T20 series against South Africa
The West Indies team whitewashed South Africa in the three-match T20 series being played at their home ground and won the last match of the series by 8 wickets as per Duckworth Lewis rules (DLS). In this match played at the Trinidad ground, South Africa batted first and scored 108 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 13 overs. After this, the West Indies team got a target of 116 runs as per DLS rules, which they achieved in just 9.2 overs on the basis of excellent batting by Shai Hope and Nicholas Pooran. Nicholas Pooran played an innings of 35 runs in 13 balls.
Paralympic Games will start in Paris today
The Paralympic Games will begin in Paris, the capital of France, from August 28 and will continue till September 8. This time, a total of 84 para athletes have come from India to participate in the Paralympic Games. All these athletes will participate in events of 12 different sports. In the last Paralympic Games, India won a total of 19 medals. These included 5 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals. Four out of the 5 para athletes who won gold medals in the last Paralympics are participating this time as well.
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