Jay Shah (Amit Shah’s Son)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Jay Shah

• Jay Shah, son of India’s Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah, is the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and also the president of the Asian Cricket Council.

• Reportedly, Jay Shah aspired to become a cricketer during his teen days for which he even received professional cricket training for a short period under former Gujarat Cricket Team coach Jayendra Sehgal.

• After graduating from Ahmedabad’s Nirmala University, Jay Shah joined his family business of PVC pipes in around 2003.

• Following in his father’s footsteps, who had worked as a stockbroker prior to joining politics, Jay Shah incorporated a trading business company by the name Temple Enterprises Pvt Ltd in 2004.

• In 2009, Jay Shah made his way into cricket administration after joining Gujarat Cricket Association (GCI) as an executive member. He was elected as the joint secretary of GCI in 2013. The most significant project that he headed during his term as the GCA Joint Secretory was the construction of the world’s largest cricket arena, Narendra Modi Stadium.

  

• In 2015, he joined the BCCI administration and became a member of the finance and marketing committees of the board.

• In 2015, Shah bought 60 per cent ownership in Kusum Finserve, a stock trading and marketing consultancy firm.

• Shah’s trading company Temple Enterprises Pvt Ltd was shut down in October 2016.

• In September 2019, Jay Shah stepped down from the position of GCI joint secretary. After a month, he was elected as the secretary of BCCI. He was the youngest administrator ever to take charge as BCCI secretary. He left the BCCI in December 2024.

  

• In December 2019, BCCI chose Jay Shah as a representative of BCCI for CEC meetings of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

• In January 2021, Jay Shah was appointed as the president of the Asian Cricket Council, a cricket organisation established to promote and develop cricket in Asia. Jay was the youngest ever to hold the position of ACC president.

• On 27 October 2022, BCCI Honorary Secretary Jay Shah announced that the Indian women cricketers will be paid the same fee as their male counterparts, and both men and women cricketers will be paid Rs. 15 lahks for Tests, Rs. 6 lahks for one-day internationals, and Rs. 3 lakhs for Twenty20 internationals. He said,
  

  Pay equity was my commitment to our women cricketers and I thank the apex council for their support.” ^[5]The Hindu

• On 27 August 2024, Jay Shah was appointed as the chairman of ICC for three years without any opposition. He became the youngest person to hold the post. His term will begin on 1 December 2024.