Mithun Manhas, a stalwart of home cricket, is ready to be elected unopposed because the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on September 28. Manhas, the previous Delhi captain who’s a veteran of 157 First Class matches, filed his nomination papers on the BCCI headquarters on Sunday.
Sunday was the final day for submitting the nominations. All the six Apex Council slots are set to be elected unopposed with the respective candidates submitting their nomination papers in individual on Sunday.
“We unanimously decided to nominate him (Manhas) as the president. Since Manhas is a former player it was decided to make him the president,” Rajeev Shukla, who is ready to proceed because the vice-president, instructed the mediapersons.
Manhas, who will flip 46 subsequent month, didn’t work together with the media. He will thus turn into essentially the most low-key BCCI chief after the Supreme Court-directed administrative reforms had been carried out by the BCCI. While Sourav Ganguly, former India captain, held the post from 2019 to 2022, he was succeeded by Roger Binny, a 1983 World Cup-winner.
Manhas, who had a chronic profession as Delhi’s batting mainstay earlier than ending his stint with Jammu & Kashmir, is taken into account to be a trusted ally of the forces that administer BCCI. A classical batter, who’s among the many prime names within the record of batters unlucky to have missed out on an India cap, Manhas has been most well-liked over Test stalwarts.
Manhas, who performed 44 IPL video games from 2010 to 2014 and was the assistant coach with Gujarat Titans for three seasons, has been nominated to characterize J&Okay within the AGM. Former Test spinners Harbhajan Singh and Raghuram Bhat will characterize Punjab and Karnataka, respectively.
The BCCI election is scheduled throughout its annual common assembly at its headquarters subsequent Sunday. The Hindu understands that after consulting a number of the prime ministers within the authorities, the BCCI hierarchy zeroed in on Manhas because the consensus candidate.
Devajit Saikia and Shukla are set to proceed because the secretary and vice-president, respectively. Bhat filed his nomination papers on Sunday for the treasurer’s post. Prabhtej Singh Bhatia, who had held the post for nearly a yr, is more likely to be elected unopposed because the joint secretary.
The sixth slot within the BCCI apex council is ready to go to Jaydev Shah, the previous Saurashtra captain who holds the report for having led a staff for essentially the most matches in Ranji Trophy.
“I have been the secretary for the last few months and my colleagues wanted me to file the nomination,” stated Saikia who has performed 4 Ranji video games for Assam. After conducting the scrutiny of the nomination papers, election officer A.Okay. Joti will announce the ultimate record of legitimate nominations on Monday.
