MCC launches World Cricket Committee

Date released: 13 April 2006

As part of its ongoing service to international cricket, MCC has today announced that it has formed a new committee made up of some of the world’s leading cricketers, past and present. The remit of the MCC World Cricket committee, which will be chaired by Tony Lewis, the MCC Chairman of Cricket, will be to discuss any aspect of the game, especially those which have an impact on the Laws or the Spirit of Cricket, included as the preamble to the Laws. It will be empowered to conduct research, particularly into technological advances and bio-mechanical elements of the game and its players.

The committee, which will meet, at Lord’s, for the first time on Monday 24th April, will provide an independent body of cricketers with international experience with the opportunity to have wide-ranging discussions, to assist the long-established Laws Working Party and to support, constructively question or challenge changes to the game at its various levels throughout the world. The membership of the committee has a wealth of experience, as evidenced by an aggregate of 1183 Test appearances. This inaugural meeting will consider Laws 24.2 and 24.3, dealing with Unfair Deliveries, and discussion about future research projects.

The members of the MCC World Cricket Committee are:

Mike Atherton *
Mike Brearley *
Geoffrey Boycott *
Martin Crowe
Tony Dodemaide *
Rahul Dravid *
Andy Flower *
Mike Gatting
Majid Khan *
Barry Richards *
David Shepherd
Alec Stewart *
Courtney Walsh
Steve Waugh *

Members of the MCC World Cricket committee marked * will be available for a photocall at 12.30pm on 24th April.