Martin Snedden has been elected as the new chairman of New Zealand Cricket (NZC), after the post became vacant following Greg Barclay’s election as the ICC chairman.
Snedden, who played 25 Tests and 93 ODIs between 1980 and 1990, has played prominent roles at NZC in the past too – as chief executive and a board member of the organisation from 1990 to 1992; 1999 to 2001 and again from 2013 until present.
In his new role, Snedden will be NZC’s representative on the board of the ICC, “a task with which he is very familiar, having been seconded to the role in 2013 and 2014 during Stuart Heal’s tenure, as well as being a member of the ICC chief executives committee from 2001-2007”, as an NZC statement put it.
“I’d like to thank Greg for the outstanding direction and guidance he’s given the board since being elected as chair in 2016,” Snedden said in the NZC statement. “It is a measure of the success he has overseen in this role that he has now been elected the ICC chair.
“Equally, I’d like to…