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The Board of
Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) has appointed George Wiltshire as the
General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of the Federation.
Wiltshire will be the pioneer COO of the NCF to be appointed.

In a statement, the
Federation said Wiltshire, a seasoned administrator and
ex-International Cricketer, with over 20 years of cognate
administrative experience, will be in charge of the day-to-day running
of the secretariat and also all national leagues and the national
teams.

Wiltshire holds a
Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Lagos and
has attended various courses in Nigeria and abroad. He has had his
hands in cricket administration in 1990 as the Secretary of the Club
Cricket Committee (CCC) Lagos, the body responsible for running the
biggest Cricket League in West Africa, which he co-founded and he
served for 9 years before his recent appointment as the GM/COO of the
NCF.

Wiltshire, who had
been a Member of the Publicity & Logistics Sub- Committee of the
NCF and Editor of its newsletter, previously worked in the Federal
Ministry of Information as an aide of the minister. He also served as
Head of Corporate Affairs Departments of Financial Merchant Bank,
Federal Mortgage Finance, EIB International Bank Plc, AGM General
Services of EIB International Bank and AGM Project Monitoring, Skye
Bank Plc.

Adding value

Wiltshire, the
Federation stated, has extensive experience across various areas of
Cricket administration such as formulation and Implementation of
Cricket Development programmes, Budget and Planning, Marketing &
Communications, Organisation of Tournaments and liaison with members of
the Cricket.

The board is
confident that the incoming leadership and administrative experience
Wiltshire will add value to the growth that has been achieved by the
Kwesi Sagoe led Board of the NCF.

The appointment of
Wiltshire was in compliance with the International Cricket Council
(ICC) criteria for its associate members, of which Nigeria is one.

The council also
commended the federation for holding three cricket administration
programme modules and for being the only Federation in Africa that has
executed the CAP 2010 Modules.

The senior national
cricket team is now ranked 6th in Africa and 39th in the World while
the U-19 team is now ranked 7th in Africa.