{"id":63939,"date":"2025-01-28T22:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=63939"},"modified":"2025-01-28T22:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:58:52","slug":"geoff-allardice-steps-down-as-icc-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/geoff-allardice-steps-down-as-icc-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Allardice steps down as ICC CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (I<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistans-babar-azam-named-in-icc-t20i-team-of-the-year-2024\/\">CC<\/a>) confirmed on Tuesday that Geoff Allardice has decided to step down as the ICC\u2019s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).<\/p>\n<p>According to a release issued by the ICC, Geoff Allardice joined the ICC in 2012 as General Manager of Cricket, joining from Cricket Australia where he held the position of Cricket Operations Manager.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed as the ICC\u2019s CEO in November 2021, having previously served as Acting CEO for eight months.<\/p>\n<p>ICC Chairman Mr Jay Shah said: \u201cOn behalf of the ICC Board, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Geoff for his leadership and commitment during his tenure as Chief Executive. His efforts have played a key role in advancing cricket globally. We are truly grateful for his service and wish him well in his future endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Allardice said: \u201cIt has been an honour to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the International Cricket Council and I am incredibly proud of the results we have achieved, from expanding the global reach of cricket to the commercial foundation we have established for the ICC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank the ICC Chair, the Board of Directors and the entire cricketing community for their support and cooperation over the past 13 years. I believe this is the right time for me to step down and pursue new challenges. I am confident that exciting times lie ahead for cricket, and I wish the ICC and the global cricketing community every success in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC Board will begin the next steps to identify a replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed on Tuesday that Geoff Allardice has decided to step down as the ICC\u2019s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). According to a release issued by the ICC, Geoff Allardice joined the ICC in 2012 as General Manager of Cricket, joining from Cricket Australia where he held the position of Cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[461,26141],"class_list":["post-63939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-international-cricket-council","tag-geoff-allardice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63940,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63939\/revisions\/63940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}