Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara will continue to serve as the president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) until September 2021 due to ‘extraordinary circumstances’ in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic.
The current activities have been postponed at the club. The proposal will be voted on at the club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on June 24 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 Covid19.
Sangakkara who is the first overseas president of MCC took charge of the club on October 1 last year and he also recently participated in a successful club tour of Pakistan, his first return to the country since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in March 2009.