As part of the planned changes to the governance structure of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the first independent woman director has been appointed to the board of the ICC: Indra Nooyi, CEO and Chairwoman of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world. Nooyi will effectively become a functioning member of the board by June 2018.

Nooyi was born and educated in Chennai where she played cricket as a teenager, before moving to the USA and eventually being appointed head of PepsiCo in 2006. With the ICC focusing on expanding the scale and coverage of women's cricket, and a notable gender disparity in the senior positions of cricket administrations around the world, Nooyi's appointment is a welcome step in the right direction. Whether it leads to an improvement in women's cricket remains to be seen.

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