May 16, 2007	Wednesday	Rabi-us-Sani 28, 1428

DUBAI, May 15: Former Australia captain Mark Taylor, Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene and Michael Holding, the ex-West Indies fast bowler, are among the people who will form part of the ICC's newly-constituted Cricket Committee.

Also included are Umpire of the Year Simon Taufel, chief

ICC match referee and former Sri Lanka captain Ranjan Madugalle and Craig Wright, the former Scotland captain.

The new structure is designed to be representative of all interests in the modern game and replaces the previous set-up which was made up of the nominated representatives from each of the Full Members (boards and players) and leading Associates.

The new 13-member committee, which will meet for the first time on May 30 and 31 in Dubai, will be chaired by ex-India captain Sunil Gavaskar. It will also feature recently appointed Western Australia coach Tom Moody who coached Sri Lanka to the final earlier this year.

The ICC Executive Board, which previously approved the recommendation of the Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC) to amend the structure of the Cricket Committee, approved the personnel set to sit on it at its meeting in Cape Town in March.

The remit of the Cricket Committee is to discuss and consult on any cricket-playing matters and to formulate recommendations to the CEC which relate to cricket-playing matters.

The committee will be made up of the following individuals:

Sunil Gavaskar (chairman), Ian Bishop, Mark Taylor (past players), Mahela Jayawardene, Tim May (representatives of current players), Tom Moody (Full Member team coach representative), Duleep Mendis (Member Board representative), Simon Taufel (umpires’ representative), Ranjan Madugalle (referees’ representative), Keith Bradshaw (MCC representative), David Kendix (statistician), Michael Holding (media), Craig Wright (Associate representative; former Scotland captain).—Agencies