Anurag Thakur elected as new BCCI President

Anurag Thakur has been unanimously elected as the new president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the cricket governing body tweeted after the special general meeting in Mumbai on Sunday (May 22). His term continues until September 2017.

Thakur, the former secretary, replaces Shashank Manohar in the top job after the latter stepped down earlier this month and subsequently became International Cricket Council’s (ICC) first independent chairman.

Thakur, 41, filed his nomination paperwork on Saturday at the board’s Mumbai office and now becomes the youngest in 81 years to take over the president’s role.

The 34th president of the board, Thakur nominated Ajay Shirke, Maharashtra Cricket Association president, as his secretary. Shirke, former BCCI treasurer, quit his post in 2013 unhappy with the then regiment’s response to the IPL corruption scandal.