Mumbai: Former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara is set to serve his second term as president of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) as current activities at the club have been postponed.
The proposal will be voted on at the club’s annual general meeting (AGM) on 24 June this year, and during the meeting, the club will also consider raising funds through a new life membership scheme, in order to keep the redevelopment of the Compton and Edrich Stands on course during the Covid-19 pandemic, ESPNCricinfo reported.
The life-membership scheme was first adopted to fund the redevelopment of the Lord’s Grandstand in 1926 and 1996 and is expected to cost between £ 7,000 and £ 80,000 depending on the age of the applicant.
Sangakkara, who is the first foreign chairman of the MCC, took over the club on 1 October last year and also announced in a recent successful club tour of Pakistan, his first in the country after a terrorist attack on a Sri Lankan team bus Return March 2009.
The president of the MCC traditionally serves a term of only 12 months, but Lord Hakke (1914–18) and Stanley Christopherson (1939–45) both served for long periods during the First and Second World Wars.
In 2020, Lord’s Cricket Ground was kept for two Test matches against West Indies and Pakistan respectively. In the domestic competition, the field was scheduled to host the final of the inaugural season of ‘Hundred’, but now the tournament has been postponed until 2021 due to a coronovirus epidemic.
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