{"id":709164,"date":"2026-07-24T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709164\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:14:10","slug":"essex-chairman-jason-gallian-steps-down-from-role-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709164\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex chairman Jason Gallian steps down from role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex chairman Jason Gallian has announced he will step down from the role after &#8220;careful consideration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gallian had assumed the role on an interim basis last year after predecessor Anu Mohindru resigned when he was found to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cpw17nkddp0o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lied about studying at the University of Oxford.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gallian will remain on the county&#8217;s board, with the club to appoint a new chairman at its next board meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an open letter <a href=\"https:\/\/essexcricket.org.uk\/2026\/07\/23\/agm-2026-update\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the club&#8217;s website,, external<\/a> Gallian said: &#8220;This has not been an easy decision but I believe it is the right one for the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gallian&#8217;s decision to step down from the role was made at Essex&#8217;s AGM on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The meeting also saw Jamas Hodivala KC and Daren Mootoo appointed to the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My greatest strength, passion and commitment has always been cricket itself,&#8221; said Gallian, who finished his playing career at Essex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I believe I can make the greatest contribution by focusing my time and energy on supporting our cricket programme and most importantly, the welfare and development of our players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essex chairman Jason Gallian has announced he will step down from the role after &#8220;careful consideration&#8221;. Gallian had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709164","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=709164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}