David Collier, the previous England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief govt, has died aged 70.
Collier served because the ECB’s second chief govt from 2004-2014, having beforehand labored at Essex, Leicestershire, Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire.
Throughout Collier’s time, England males received the Ashes 4 instances and England girls received the Ashes 5 instances.
His tenure additionally noticed the ladies’s group raise each the ICC Girls’s World Cup and the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in 2009, the boys following go well with with the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup in 2010.
Probably the excessive level of Collier’s time on the ECB was the double Ashes success of 2005.
Collier was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) within the 2015 New 12 months Honours for companies to cricket.
ECB chief govt Richard Gould stated: “It’s immensely sad to learn of the death of David Collier. Everyone who knew and worked with David will speak to what a gentleman he was, and to how hard he worked in leading our game.
“He served cricket with nice distinction, and he was instrumental in a interval of progress which has contributed to the place the sport is immediately. A few of our earliest advances within the girls’s and incapacity video games had been made below David and I do know he was happy with taking the sport ahead throughout his time on the ECB – his contribution speaks for itself.
“The thoughts of all of us at the ECB are with everyone who knew and loved David.”
