{"id":545296,"date":"2026-04-22T21:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:02:39","slug":"ed-smith-appointed-to-ecb-board-as-non-executive-director-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545296\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Smith appointed to ECB board as non-executive director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The England and Wales Cricket Board has appointed former national selector Ed Smith to its board as a non-executive director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith, who played for Middlesex and Kent and earned three Test caps, will join the ECB on 1 October when his one-year term as MCC President ends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He served as England men&#8217;s selector from 2018 to 2021, during which they won the World Cup on home soil in 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ECB said that Smith&#8217;s role &#8220;will provide scrutiny and challenge, looking at the long-term strategy and governance of the whole game, including performance cricket&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith&#8217;s appointment comes after England&#8217;s miserable Ashes tour, where their preparation, attitude and professionalism came under intense scrutiny after the 4-1 thrashing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will replace replace Baroness Zahida Manzoor, who has completed her three-year term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s international summer begins with the women&#8217;s white-ball series against New Zealand on 10 May before the men face the same opponents in the first Test on 4 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England and Wales Cricket Board has appointed former national selector Ed Smith to its board as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-545296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}