Legendary Indian girl cricketer Jhulan Goswami and two English gamers in Heather Knight and Eoin Morgan have joined the MCC World Cricket Committee (WCC) forward of its assembly on the Lord’s, the membership stated on Monday.

Besides Goswami, England girls’s crew skipper Knight and 2019 ODI World Cup successful captain Morgan too have joined the WCC, which is an unbiased physique comprised of present and former worldwide cricketers, umpires, and officers from internationally.

Often considered one of many quickest bowler within the girls’s recreation, Goswami retired from worldwide cricket final yr, and fittingly her last look was at Lord’s within the ODI towards England, the place she was given a guard of honour. The seamer loved a profession spanning 20 years, taking on 300 wickets in white-ball cricket throughout 272 appearances, as effectively 44 wickets in 12 Test matches. She was made an Honorary Life Member of MCC in April this yr.

”We are thrilled to welcome Jhulan, Heather and Eoin to the World Cricket committee,” Chair of the MCC World Cricket committee Mike Gatting, stated in a launch.

”These are three gamers who’ve excelled on the very high of the worldwide recreation and their data of how the elite stage of cricket works might be a bonus to the committee.

”It can also be necessary that we’re rising the feminine illustration on the committee with the expansion that girls’s cricket has loved lately. Jhulan and Heather be part of Clare Connor and Suzie Bates who can all supply first-hand perception into the ladies’s recreation.” The WCC will meet on Monday and Tuesday at Lord’s forward of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia, with numerous outputs from the assembly to be communicated after the conclusion of the match.

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