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Final Up to date: March 18, 2023, 00:18 IST
Former cricketer Clare Connor (IANS Photograph)
Clare took on the position of Interim CEO in June 2022, having beforehand been ECB’s Managing Director of Girls’s Cricket by which she oversaw a transformational interval for the sport
Former cricketer Clare Connor has been appointed as Deputy Chief Government Officer of England and Wales Cricket Board, in addition to Managing Director of England Girls.
Clare took on the position of Interim CEO in June 2022, having beforehand been ECB’s Managing Director of Girls’s Cricket by which she oversaw a transformational interval for the sport.
She begins the brand new position with speedy impact following Richard Gould’s arrival on the organisation as CEO In February. Clare’s new position may also cowl England Incapacity Cricket and different tasks.
“It was an infinite honour to have served as Interim CEO of ECB, and I’m delighted that on this new position, I can proceed to make a distinction throughout the sport as we try to develop into a extra inclusive sport. Cricket’s response to the Impartial Fee for Fairness in Cricket’s report will likely be an important second for our recreation and we should use it to alter for the higher.”
“All through my a few years working in cricket up to now, I’ve been dedicated to creating our recreation one which incorporates and welcomes individuals from each background, and that’s what’s going to proceed to drive me on in every part I do,” stated Clare in an official assertion.
In addition to working carefully alongside Richard on Board-level management obligations, Clare’s preliminary focus will likely be on the game-wide response to the ICEC report to verify ECB transfer the sport forwards in a optimistic and progressive method.
With Clare’s new position, the put up of MD Girls’s Cricket won’t get replaced. As an alternative, Beth Barrett-Wild will develop into Director, Girls’s Skilled Recreation, increasing her present remit with The Hundred to incorporate wider management obligations throughout the ladies’s skilled recreation.
“It is a enormous yr for cricket, with the Males’s and Girls’s Ashes to stay up for, the ladies’s recreation growing so rapidly and home cricket on a quick development technique, whereas we even have the challenges of the Impartial Fee for Fairness in Cricket report to return.”
“I’m delighted due to this fact that Clare has accepted the position of Deputy CEO and MD England Girls. She did a superb job as Interim CEO, and previous to this as MD of Girls’s Cricket. The brand new position will permit her to proceed to steer and affect throughout the sport, permitting us all to profit from her expertise and information,” stated Gould.
Clare made her England debut in 1995 on the age of 19 and took over the captaincy in 2000. An all-rounder who bowled left-arm spin, she led England girls to their first Ashes triumph in 42 years, overseeing a 1-Zero sequence win over Australia in 2005, for which she was awarded the OBE. She retired from the worldwide recreation in 2006 with over 100 worldwide caps and after six years of serving as England’s captain.
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