The England and Wales Cricket Board has appointed former nationwide selector Ed Smith to its board as a non-executive director.
Smith, who performed for Middlesex and Kent and earned three Check caps, will be part of the ECB on 1 October when his one-year time period as MCC President ends.
He served as England males’s selector from 2018 to 2021, throughout which they gained the World Cup on residence soil in 2019.
The ECB mentioned that Smith’s position “will present scrutiny and problem, trying on the long-term technique and governance of the entire recreation, together with efficiency cricket”.
Smith’s appointment comes after England’s depressing Ashes tour, the place their preparation, angle and professionalism got here underneath intense scrutiny after the 4-1 thrashing.
He’ll change change Baroness Zahida Manzoor, who has accomplished her three-year time period.
England’s worldwide summer season begins with the ladies’s white-ball sequence in opposition to New Zealand on 10 Could earlier than the lads face the identical opponents within the first Check on 4 June.
