15 Facts About Jay Shah

Jay Amitbhai Shah was born on 22 September 1988 and is an Indian cricket administrator and businessman, and the Chairman of the International Cricket Council since December 2024.

Jay Shah was the President of the Asian Cricket Council, establishing himself as one of the most influential figures in global cricket governance.

Jay Shah is the son of Amit Shah, India's Minister of Home Affairs.

Jay Shah is the third Indian to become chairman of the International Cricket Council, after N Srinivasan and Shashank Manohar.

Jay Shah was born to Amit Shah, Union Home Minister and Sonal Shah on 22 September 1988.

Jay Shah became a member of the finance and marketing committees of the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2015.

Jay Shah stepped down from the position of GCA joint secretary in September 2019.

In October 2022, Jay Shah was re-elected as Secretary of BCCI.

In 2022, Jay Shah led BCCI's record breaking Indian Premier League media rights deal, where the 5 year rights for the league were sold for a total of Rs 48,390 crore, making the IPL the 2nd most valued sporting league in the world in terms of per match value.

In January 2024, Jay Shah was re-elected as Asian Cricket Council president.

Jay Shah had been instrumental within the ICC Olympics Working Group, in sealing cricket's participation in 2028 Olympics.

Jay Shah was a strong advocate of including it in the Commonwealth Games and recent Asian Games, and will now historically be part of the Olympic Games for the first time ever.

Jay Shah is the current Chairman of the ICC, and commenced his tenure on 1 December 2024.

In February 2015, Jay Shah married Rishita Patel, his college girlfriend, in a traditional Gujarati ceremony.

Jay Shah filed a criminal defamation case and a civil lawsuit of 100 crore against the editors of The Wire who, in an October 2017 article, reported that Jay Shah's company's revenue increased 16,000 times one year after Narendra Modi became the Indian Prime Minister.