Thakur, incidentally, will go into the books as the first first-class cricketer to turn BCCI president after Raj Singh Dungarpur lay down office in 1998-99.
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After Shashank Manohar’s resignation from the coveted post of the President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur has been elected as the new President on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Manohar revealed that he quit the BCCI post as he could not implement the Supreme Court-mandated recommendations regarding the restructuring of the board. In presence of all the crucial board members, Thakur was declared the President. Manohar, who had taken over the post after Jagmohan Dalmia’s sudden demise, gave it up on May 10 and was elected unopposed as the new International Cricket Council (ICC) Chairman.
Foremost on Thakur’s task list will be the recommendations of the Lodha Committee that has proposed a large-scale revamp of the BCCI’s constitution and operations. “I can’t see an organisation being destroyed which has been built by so many persons”, he said.
The 41-year-old BJP MP comes in at a time when the board is in deep waters over the Supreme Court’s orders to implement the Justice R M Lodha Committee’s recommendations for sweeping reforms.
Manohar: I have no issues on number of persons in the apex committee, but nowhere in the world players sit on the board of directors.
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Thakur won the post of Secretary by a close margin of one vote in 2015 and has quickly risen up within the fold since then and is now set to take over the top post in cricket administration. Even before the recommendations came many of them had already been implemented by the Board.
