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10 Facts About Tim Lamb

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Timothy Michael Lamb was born on 24 March 1953 and is an English sports administrator and former cricketer who played for a decade in County cricket for Middlesex and Northamptonshire as a bowler.

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Tim Lamb later became the chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance from 2005 until 2014.

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Tim Lamb left the Sport and Recreation Alliance and set up TML Sports Connections, a sports consultancy.

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Tim Lamb is a member of the Cabinet Office Sport Honours Committee and a Trustee of the Hornsby Professional Cricketers' Fund.

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Tim Lamb was educated at Shrewsbury School, a boarding and day independent school for boys, in the market town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, followed by The Queen's College at the University of Oxford.

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Tim Lamb played professional cricket for Middlesex and Northamptonshire.

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Tim Lamb entered sports administration as secretary and general manager of Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1984, and became cricket secretary of the Test and County Cricket Board in 1988 and chief executive in 1996.

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Tim Lamb was elected an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, Middlesex County Cricket Club and Durham County Cricket Club in recognition of his services to cricket.

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Tim Lamb left the ECB in 2004 and the following year became chief executive of the CCPR, the independent umbrella body and trade association for the national governing and representative bodies of sport and recreation in the UK.

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Tim Lamb is married to Denise and has two children.