{"id":122708,"date":"2024-08-28T00:55:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/world-game-will-flourish-with-jay-shah-as-icc-chairman-sunil-gavaskar-cricket-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T00:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:55:12","slug":"world-game-will-flourish-with-jay-shah-as-icc-chairman-sunil-gavaskar-cricket-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/world-game-will-flourish-with-jay-shah-as-icc-chairman-sunil-gavaskar-cricket-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"World game will flourish with Jay Shah as ICC chairman: Sunil Gavaskar | Cricket News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-112850784,imgsize-25384.cms?resize=1280,720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"World game will flourish with Jay Shah as ICC chairman: Sunil Gavaskar | Cricket News &#8211; Times of India\" title=\"World game will flourish with Jay Shah as ICC chairman: Sunil Gavaskar | Cricket News &#8211; Times of India\" \/><\/div>\n<div>MUMBAI: Hailing <!-- -->BCCI<!-- --> secretary <!-- -->Jay Shah<!-- -->, who was elected unopposed as the next chairman of the <!-- -->International Cricket Council<!-- --> on Tuesday, cricket legend <!-- -->Sunil Gavaskar<!-- --> told TOI that &#8220;it won\u2019t be a surprise if the world game flourishes even more during his term as the <!-- -->ICC chairman<!-- -->.&#8221; <br \/>The 35-year-old is the youngest-ever to take over the prestigious position. <br \/>Reacting to Shah succeeding <!-- -->Greg Barclay<!-- --> in the ICC top post, Gavaskar told this paper: &#8220;That\u2019s wonderful news. All the ICC presidents from India have taken the game forward and brought more revenues for the ICC and with it for the other member countries. If one leaves political biases aside, one will agree that Jay Shah has taken massive steps for Indian cricket.&#8221;Listing out Shah&#8217;s achievements as the <!-- -->BCCI secretary<!-- --> from 2019, Gavaskar said, &#8220;He was mainly instrumental in getting the Women&#8217;s Premier League (WPL) off the ground, made the Indian women international cricketers&#8217; fees on par with the Indian men\u2019s team, increased the pension for retired cricketers, brought in incentives for being available for Test and white-ball internationals and introduced prize money for the domestic tournaments. The new state-of-the-art <!-- -->National Cricket Academy<!-- --> (NCA, in Bangalore) has also come about during his tenure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With all this in front of us it won\u2019t be a surprise if the world game flourishes even more during his term as the ICC chairman,&#8221; Gavaskar concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\nvar _mfq = window._mfq || [];\n_mfq.push([\"setVariable\", \"toi_titan\", window.location.href]);\n!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isFBCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() {\n          n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n        };\n        if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n        n.push = n;\n        n.loaded = !0;\n        n.version = '2.0';\n        n.queue = [];\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js', n, t, s);\n      fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    };\n    function loadGtagEvents(isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      var id = document.getElementById('toi-plus-google-campaign');\n      if (id) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        t.id = 'toi-plus-google-campaign';\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074', n, t, s);\n    };\n    function loadSurvicateJs(allowedSurvicateSections = []){\n      const section =  window.location.pathname.split('\/')[1]\n      const isHomePageAllowed = window.location.pathname === '\/' && allowedSurvicateSections.includes('homepage')\n      if(allowedSurvicateSections.includes(section) || isHomePageAllowed){\n        (function(w) {\n         function setAttributes() {\n                    var prime_user_status = window.isPrime ? 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