NEW DELHI: Legendary Indian girl cricketer Jhulan Goswami, England ladies’s workforce captain Heather Knight and 2019 ODI World Cup successful captain Morgan on Monday joined the MCC World Cricket Committee (WCC), the Marylebone Cricket Club mentioned. The trio has joined the committee forward of its upcoming assembly at Lord’s.
This committee is an impartial physique that consists of present and former worldwide cricketers, umpires, and officers from varied nations.
Often thought to be one of many quickest bowler within the ladies’s recreation, Goswami retired from worldwide cricket final yr, and fittingly her remaining look was at Lord’s within the ODI towards England, the place she was given a guard of honour.
The seamer loved a profession spanning 20 years, taking up 300 wickets in white-ball cricket throughout 272 appearances, as effectively 44 wickets in 12 Test matches.
She was made an Honorary Life Member of MCC in April this yr.
“We are thrilled to welcome Jhulan, Heather and Eoin to the World Cricket committee,” Chair of the MCC World Cricket committee Mike Gatting, mentioned in a launch.
“These are three players who have excelled at the very top of the international game and their knowledge of how the elite level of cricket works will be an advantage to the committee.
“It can be necessary that we’re rising the feminine illustration on the committee with the expansion that girls’s cricket has loved in recent times. Jhulan and Heather be part of Clare Connor and Suzie Bates who can all supply first-hand perception into the ladies’s recreation.”
This committee is an impartial physique that consists of present and former worldwide cricketers, umpires, and officers from varied nations.
Often thought to be one of many quickest bowler within the ladies’s recreation, Goswami retired from worldwide cricket final yr, and fittingly her remaining look was at Lord’s within the ODI towards England, the place she was given a guard of honour.
The seamer loved a profession spanning 20 years, taking up 300 wickets in white-ball cricket throughout 272 appearances, as effectively 44 wickets in 12 Test matches.
She was made an Honorary Life Member of MCC in April this yr.
“We are thrilled to welcome Jhulan, Heather and Eoin to the World Cricket committee,” Chair of the MCC World Cricket committee Mike Gatting, mentioned in a launch.
“These are three players who have excelled at the very top of the international game and their knowledge of how the elite level of cricket works will be an advantage to the committee.
“It can be necessary that we’re rising the feminine illustration on the committee with the expansion that girls’s cricket has loved in recent times. Jhulan and Heather be part of Clare Connor and Suzie Bates who can all supply first-hand perception into the ladies’s recreation.”
The WCC will meet on Monday and Tuesday at Lord’s forward of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia, with varied outputs from the assembly to be communicated after the conclusion of the match.
(With inputs from PTI)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com