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The Cricket Foundation

President and Vice-Presidents

Lord MacLaurin

Key facts

Name: Ian Charter MacLaurin

Born:
Blackheath, 30 March 1937

Education:
Malvern College, Worcestershire

Career:
Former Chairman of Tesco; Chairman of Vodafone

Cricket career:
Kent; RAF; MCC; Former Chairman of ECB

Earliest cricketing memory

Watching Kent at Lawrence Ground, Canterbury just after the Second World War.

Cricketing highlights / lowlights

Highlights: The recent successes of the England team.

Lowlights:
The Tour to Zimbabwe in 1997.

Cricketers admired

Colin Cowdrey

What cricket has helped me to achieve

Playing cricket taught me at an early age the importance of being part of a team - both in business and in the wider world.

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Ian MacLaurin
…the importance of being part of a team - both in business and in the wider world