BENGALURU: The members who had been current on the 93rd BCCI Annual Basic Assembly (AGM) right here on Sunday requested incumbent secretary Jay Shah to hurry up the method of discovering his successor to maintain the transition of energy as clean as doable.
Shah is anticipated to step down from his submit within the final week of November and take over because the chairman of Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) for a three-year interval from December 1.
Whereas choosing the brand new secretary was not on the AGM agenda, it has been learnt that the attendees mentioned the succession plan amongst themselves to maintain the process open.
“It was a traditional request to maintain all due course of in place on the earliest as there shall be readability for us. Additionally, we’ve some massive occasions just like the IPL public sale arising, so it shouldn’t be like we shall be dealing with all the things at one go,” a state affiliation consultant who attended the AGM informed PTI.
As issues stand now, Rohan Jaitley, president of Delhi and District Cricket Affiliation, BCCI treasurer Ashish Shelar, joint secretary Devajit Saikia and Gujarat Cricket Affiliation secretary Anil Patel are the candidates who’re within the fray to succeed Shah, until a darkish horse emerges within the latter phases of the choice course of.
With no secretary election on agenda, the first point of interest of the AGM was the nomination of two representatives of India to the ICC conferences.
Presently, Shah is BCCI’s consultant on the ICC Board and IPL chairman Arun Dhumal is within the Chief Executives’ Committee.
The AGM entrusted the final physique members to suggest two names quickly for the posts – director and alternate director – because the ICC has additionally scheduled a conclave in Dubai proper after the ultimate of the upcoming girls’s T20 World Cup.
As PTI reported on Saturday, Arun Singh Dhumal and Avishek Dalmiya had been elected to the IPL Governing Council as common physique representatives with former all set to proceed because the league’s chairman at the least until IPL 2025.
Former Andhra cricketer, V. Chamundeswarnath was nominated by the Indian Cricketers Affiliation (ICA) as a participant consultant and was inducted into the IPL GC.
“The members of the final physique additionally appreciated the efforts of the workplace bearers for the work undertaken with respect to the brand new Nationwide Cricket Academy campus, dubbed because the Centre of Excellence close to the Bengaluru Worldwide Airport,” mentioned the BCCI in a launch.
In that context, the AGM additionally featured the screening of a 17-minute-long tribute video to Shah, highlighting the sturdy companies he rendered to Indian cricket in his position because the board’s secretary.
VVS Laxman, head of the Centre of Excellence, additionally lavished reward on Shah for his visionary effort to show the challenge a actuality.
“One particular person I might positively need to single out is Jay as a result of I’ve seen and I’ve been a part of varied conferences when he got here right here, interacted with the L&T (building) crew.
“The type of timelines, the type of deadlines he has placed on them, and virtually whereas empowering them, he made certain that every one of them adopted the timelines,” Laxman informed a choose gathering right here on Sunday on the Centre of Excellence, which was inaugurated on Saturday in a closed-door ceremony.
Apart from that the AGM ratified the annual finances for the 2024-25 season and the members unanimously resolved to keep up BCCI’s authorized standing as a society, an merchandise which was initially not within the agenda of the assembly.
“The members additional resolved that the tournaments of the BCCI, together with the IPL, shall not be transformed into an organization,” the assertion added.
