In an announcement made late Friday evening, the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) named Paudel as the lead of the national team replacing rape accused Sandeep Lamichhane.
The international cricket governing body's Finance and Commercial Affairs committee takes major policy decisions of ICC and is the second most powerful unit of global body after their board.
Barclay was unopposed following the withdrawal of Tavengwa Mukuhlani from the process, and the Board reaffirmed its full support of him to continue as Chair for a further two years.
Following recent tradition, all three of the new inductees will be honoured in a special presentation ceremony which will take place prior to the start of play at the first semi-final of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022 at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday, November 9.
After joining Sussex last year Pujara made an enormous impact on the south coast side, scoring over 1000 County Championship runs, including a record-breaking three double centuries and finishing the season with an average of 109.4.
He also stated the Pakistani team got the better of India in the 2021 T20 World Cup because they played better and the Men in Blue defeated the side in the 2022 Asia Cup while the Pakistani side pipped his team in the second match of the same event.
Fakhar Zaman, who had earlier been named in the reserves list, was moved into Pakistan's squad of 15 for the T20 World Cup after Usman Qadir injured his thumb during the England T20I series.
Along with head coach Shelley Nitschke, Australia now has two new assistant coaches in Dan Marsh and Scott Prestwidge. This comes as the top-ranked team in the world goes through a period of transition.
A maximum of four players were allowed for the teams to be retained in the major auction last year. Each team will also have an additional INR 5 crore (USD 607,000) to spend on top of the money from the previous auction, bringing the total auction pot to INR 95 crore ( USD 11.5 million).