Cricket Scotland appoint new boss

Cricket Scotland have appointed Trudy Lindblade as their new Chief Executive Officer, a role she currently occupies on behalf of the 2023 UCI Cycle World Championships which took place in Glasgow recently.

Trudy will commence work with Cricket Scotland early in 2024.

Pete Fitzboydon, current Interim Chief Executive, will remain in place until then.

A spokesperson for Cricket Scotland said today: “Trudy Lindblade brings more than 25 years’ experience working on complex, large-scale major sporting projects across the world, in partnership with governments, local organising committees and international and national sports federations.

“Trudy has a strong background in cricket which spans more than eight years working in Australian and international cricket. This includes heading up the Event Management Department at the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup, headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, and being part of the team delivering the first T20 Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2007.

“She worked in the Cricket Australia Marketing and Events team for over five years and was seconded to the International Cricket Council in 2002 and 2003 to support the delivery of the 2002 ICC Champions’ Trophy and 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup.”