New Delhi: India has got a big responsibility in the International Cricket Council (ICC). In fact, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah has been appointed chairman of the influential Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee. This committee sets budget allocations for ICC events and monitors the distribution of funds to member countries. The BCCI team, led by Jay Shah and IPL chief Arun Dhumal, has arrived in Australia a week before the ICC board meetings in Melbourne later this week.

Jay Shah has replaced former India captain Sourav Ganguly as the BCCI representative on the ICC board (BCCI chief from 2019 to October). Dhumal will be a member of the chief executive committee. According to the report, Shah will also be a member of F&CA and will succeed former Cricket Ireland president Ross McCullum, who is due to retire soon. The next meeting is scheduled for March 2023. According to the report, an ICC source has told ''Every member has accepted Jay Shah as the chairman of the Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee. Apart from the ICC chief, it is an equally powerful sub-committee.''

Earlier, India used to have the post of president of this committee during the era of N Srinivasan, but during Shashank Manohar's tenure as ICC president, the strength of BCCI was very low. During the tenure of the Committee of Administrators, there was a time when India had no representation in the Committee on Finance and Commercial Affairs. Till last year, former BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly was part of the committee.

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