How Mithun Manhas, a left-field choice, became the BCCI president in an election minus palace intrigue | Cricket News

Ganguly, former off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and former left-arm spinner Raghuram Bhat have been the opposite three eligible candidates for the president’s submit with the BCCI narrowing the search to former cricketers for the highest submit. Their respective states associations had named them as representatives for the AGM however none of them filed the nomination papers final Sunday (September 21), the final date, which left simply Manhas within the fray.

Mithun, who performed 157 first-class fixtures scoring 9714 runs at 45.82, thus turned the ‘chosen one’ for the function. A few former greats have been sounded out about them being checked out as potential BCCI presidents however each of them declined the function thus narrowing down the sphere additional as the ability centres of the BCCI needed to have a former participant as its president.

The final three elections have taken place submit the Justice Lodha Committee suggestions for governance and administrative reforms.

Since 2015, BCCI AGMs have been simple affairs, minus election-day intrigue. At these elections, there have been two factions and former administrator N Srinivasan was barred by the Supreme Court docket from contesting due to conflict-of-interest points. Whereas veteran administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya turned the consensus candidate for warring teams, Anurag Thakur pipped Sanjay Patel for the secretary’s submit.

In 2005 Ranbir Singh Mahendra was elected because the president after he gained due to the casting vote from Jagmohan Dalmiya, the outgoing president. Mahendra and Sharad Pawar have been tied earlier than Dalmiya’s intervention.

Ganguly, who had served as BCCI president between 2019 and 2022, had extra expertise in administration than Manhas however he was seen as somebody who might rock the boat. Harbhajan, a veteran of 103 Assessments and Rajya Sabha MP, like Manhas didn’t have expertise as administrator on the highest-level, although the previous off-spinner, is an immediately recognisable face. Bhat has served because the president of Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation. After Binny, he would have been the second BCCI president from Karnataka. So Bhat was handed the keys to the treasurer’s workplace, the place he changed Chhattisgarh’s Prabhtej Bhatia, who’s now the joint-secretary. Rajeev Shukla is the now the vice chairman.

Mithun was a left discipline alternative. Previous to a gathering in Delhi final week, the place a few of the previous guards have been additionally current, Mithun wasn’t in competition, it’s learnt. Nevertheless, at that assembly, when the powers at play put ahead his title, no objections have been made.

Born in Jammu, he represented Delhi within the Ranji Trophy and went again to his residence state solely in the direction of the top of his lengthy taking part in profession that started in 1997 and resulted in 2016. Publish taking part in profession, like many cricketers of his period, has been a part of totally different Indian Premier League franchises, as a assist workers. From Punjab Kings to Royal Challengers Bengaluru to Gujarat Titans, he has served as batting coach and assistant coach.

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   Choices from 94th Annual Normal Assembly of BCCI

   Full listing of BCCI office-bearers

   President: Mithun Manhas

   Vice President: Rajeev Shukla

   Secretary: Devajit Saikia

   Joint Secretary: Prabhtej Bhatia

   Treasurer: A. Raghuram Bhat

   Different selections from the 94th Annual Normal Assembly of BCCI

   1) One consultant of the Normal Physique was elected within the Apex Council of the BCCI: Jaydev Shah

   2) Two representatives within the Indian Premier League Governing Council have been elected: Arun Singh Dhumal; and M Khairul Jamal Majumdar.

   3) Males’s Choice Committee was introduced. The Choice Committee could have the next members: Ajit Agarkar (Chairperson), Shiv Sundar Das, Ajay Ratra, RP Singh, and Pragyan Ojha.
   Of those, RP Singh and Pragyan Ojha have been newly inducted within the males’s choice committee.

   4) Girls’s Choice Committee could have the next members: Amita Sharma (Chairperson), Shyama Dey, Sulakshana Naik, Jaya Sharma, and Sravanthi Naidu. Amita Sharma, Sulakshana Naik, Jaya Sharma and Sravanthi Naidu have been newly inducted within the Girls’s Choice Committee.

   5) Junior Cricket Committee was introduced. The Junior Cricket Committee could have the next members: S Sharath (Chairperson), Harvinder Sodhi, Pathik Patel, Krishna Mohan, and
   Ranadeb Bose. Sharath has been newly inducted within the Junior Cricket Committee.

   6) The WPL Committee could have the next members:
   (i) Jayesh George (Chairperson)
   (ii) Mithun Manhas
   (iii) Rajeev Shukla
   (iv) Devajit Saikia
   (v) Prabhtej Bhatia
   (vi) A Raghuram Bhat
   (vii) Madhumati Lele
   (viii) Sanjay Tandon
   (ix) RI Palani
   (x) Arun Singh Dhumal

   10. The Infrastructure Committee could have the next members:

   (i) Rohan Jaitley (Chairperson)
   (ii) Mithun Manhas
   (iii) Rajeev Shukla
   (iv) Devajit Saikia
   (v) Prabhtej Bhatia
   (vi) A Raghuram Bhat
   (vii) Anirudh Chaudhury
   (viii) Sana Sathish Babu

And in 2021 when the BCCI needed to type a sub-committee to deal with the day-to-day affairs of the dysfunctional Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Affiliation, Mithun was made a part of the committee. He was in-charge of cricketing affairs. Even at JKCA, for the executive function, the BCCI had named Brigadier Anil Gupta. Nevertheless, it was Mithun’s presence within the committee that made him eligible to be nominated by JKCA for the AGM, which in flip facilitated his election to the highest function.

At Jammu, when he was the participant, he opted out for a recreation after Parvez Rasool – the primary worldwide cricketer from Kashmir – was named captain for a Ranji fixture. With Mithun as an administrator, J&Ok made the quarterfinals of Ranji final season.