Tim Lamb

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Timothy Michael Lamb (born Hartford, Cheshire, March 24, 1953) was an English County Cricketer and Cricket Administrator, the first Chief Executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (1996-2004) and is now Chief Executive of the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) (2005-).

He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Queen's College Oxford University (for whom he got a blue in 1973 and 1974) and played professional cricket for Middlesex (1974-77) and Northamptonshire (1978-83). A right-arm fast-medium bowler Lamb played 160 First Class matches between 1973 and 1983, taking 361 wickets (average 28.97) and scoring 1274 runs (average 12.49).

He entered sports administration as Secretary and General Manager of Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1984, and he became Cricket Secretary of the Test and County Cricket Board in 1988 and Chief Executive in 1996. Under his leadership the sport of cricket witnessed a period of unprecedented reform and modernisation.

He left the ECB in 2004 and became Chief Executive of the CCPR, the independent umbrella organisation for the national governing and representative bodies of sport and recreation in the UK, in August 2005. Counting 270 organisations within its membership, CCPR exists to promote, protect and provide for both sport and recreation by demonstrating the benefits that they can bring to society, working to reduce adverse impacts from legislation or other causes, and providing a range of high quality services to enable its member organisations to operate more effectively.