Cricket: Meet the new ICC CEO Sanjog Gupta, replaces Geoff Allardice

The International Cricket Council (ICC) connected Monday announced Sanjog Gupta arsenic its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Gupta volition regenerate Geoof Allardice. "I americium pleased to denote that Sanjog Gupta has been appointed arsenic the CEO of the ICC.

Sanjog brings extended acquisition successful sports strategy and commercialisation, which volition beryllium invaluable for the ICC," said ICC president Jay Shah.

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“His heavy knowing of the planetary sports arsenic good arsenic M&E scenery combined with his continued curiosity astir the cricket fan’s position and passionateness for exertion volition beryllium indispensable successful our ambition to turn the crippled successful the coming years. Our extremity is to determination beyond accepted boundaries and found cricket arsenic a regular athletics successful the Olympics, increasing its expanse crossed the satellite and deepening its roots successful its halfway markets.“We considered respective exceptional candidates for this position, but the Nominations Committee unanimously recommended Sanjog. The ICC Board Directors look guardant to moving intimately with him, and I would similar to invited him connected behalf of everyone astatine the ICC.”

Sanjog volition presume bureau connected July 7 and volition beryllium the seventh CEO of the ICC."It is simply a privilege to person this opportunity, particularly astatine a clip erstwhile cricket is poised for unprecedented maturation and enjoys the passionate enactment of astir 2 cardinal fans worldwide. These are breathtaking times for the athletics arsenic marquee events turn successful stature, commercialized avenues widen and opportunities specified arsenic the women’s crippled standard successful popularity. Cricket’s inclusion successful the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games and the accelerated acceleration of exertion deployment/adoption could enactment arsenic force-multipliers for the Cricket question astir the world,” said Gupta.“I look guardant to contributing to the adjacent signifier of cricket’s evolution, expanding its planetary footprint, enhancing the instrumentality experience, and moving intimately with ICC Member Boards to physique connected our beardown foundations.”