Former Kent captain added to ECB board

Former Kent and England all-rounder Matthew Fleming has been appointed as the MCC“s representative on the ECB board of directors.

Fleming will attend his first ECB board meeting on September 10, following a vote of MCC committee members.

An MCC member since 2004, Fleming served on the MCC committee from 2005 to 2008 and was recently re-elected to the committee for another three years.

He has been central to development work in Afghanistan, where the building of school pitches is helping to find the next generation of Afghan talent.

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