Cracking the whip
on conflict of
interest in the Board, the BCCI today unveiled a slew of reforms as part of its promised clean-up operation and also brought in a sudden end to the controversial N Srinivasan's tenure as ICC Chairman.
Chairing his
first AGM since taking over last month, BCCI President Shashank Manohar led the Board into a new era by persuading the members to address the issues of conflict of interest and unanimously accept the appointment of a retired judge as Ombudsman.
The Board also decided to trim some of its sub- committees, drop Indian Team Director Ravi Shastri from the IPL Governing Council and axe Roger Binny from the selection panel to negate the perceived conflict of interest.
Besides, former captain Sourav Ganguly was appointed Chairman of the Technical Committee, replacing Anil Kumble.
"Today at the annual general body meeting of the Board, all the members of the Board were unanimous in their approach and were interested in seeing that the Board functions in the most transparent manner," Manohar told reporters after the 86th AGM today in which Retired Justice A P Shah was named the ombudsman.
"Contrary to the expectations of the media, the members unanimously approved the rules with regards to conflict of interest, they also unanimously approved the amendments to the constitution that everybody spoke in that meeting in favour of a clean and transparent functioning of the Board," Manohar said.
"Principally, we have decided on issues regarding conflict of interest. The detailing would be done by the legal committee in two months' time," he said.
The BCCI also removed former president and ICC chairman N Srinivasan as its representative in the world body and replaced him with Manohar who will be the new ICC chairman for the remainder of the term which ends in June next year.
"The BCCI representative to the ICC is Mr Shashank Manohar. By virtue of being the Board's representative in the ICC he will take over as the ICC chairman," said BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur.
The Board appointed former Andhra and India stumper M S K Prasad (South) and ex-India and Rajasthan opener Gagan Khoda as replacements for Hans and Binny in the selection panel.
