Veteran cricket administrator Rajeev Shukla is set to change Roger Binny as BCCI president in an interim capability after the latter turns 70 subsequent month, BCCI sources informed PTI on Monday (June 2, 2025).
Binny, who had changed Sourav Ganguly because the Board president in 2022, turns 70 on July 19, crossing the age-limit threshold for a a BCCI office-bearer.
Shukla, 65, is presently serving because the BCCI vice-president, a submit he has held since 2020. He can be the lively BCCI chief till contemporary elections are held in the course of the physique’s AGM in September.
“As per convention, the senior most office-bearer takes charge in a such a scenario. He (Shukla) will perform that role until fresh elections are held in September,” stated a BCCI supply.
The Rajya Sabha MP from the Congress occasion has beforehand additionally served because the chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Most lately, C.Okay. Khanna had served because the acting BCCI president from 2017 to 2019 in the course of the tenure of the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators that ruled the board for 33 months.
Binny was the president of the Karnataka State Cricket Association earlier than taking cost of the world’s richest cricket board three years in the past.
Counted among the many greats of the sport, the previous all-rounder was a member of the 1983 World Cup-winning workforce beneath Kapil Dev.
He later went on to coach the India Under-19 workforce that gained the 2000 version of ICC World Cup for that age group.
Published – June 02, 2025 11:24 am IST
