Cricket West Indies president Ricky Skerritt has been appointed to the Marylebone Cricket Club’s (MCC) World Cricket Committee.

The MCC meets twice a year to discuss the most important issues in the game and acts as an independent voice in world cricket.

Skerritt joins England’s all-time leading run scorer Alistair Cook as new members after former West Indies fast bowler and current commentator Ian Bishop, and Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al-Hasan stood down from the committee.

Skerritt also serves world cricket as a member of the board of the international cricket council (ICC), where he was recently appointed to the special working group on governance, set out to consider the future governance structure of the ICC.