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Anurag Thakur Set To Catch BCCI Presidentship

May. 21 Sports Comments

[Mumbai] Anurag Thakur Set To Catch BCCI Presidentship
Anurag Thakur is set to be unanimously elected BCCI President in the Board’s Special General Meeting (SGM) here tomorrow, replacing Shashank Manohar who stepped down from the position to take up the ICC chief’s job.
As per sources Thakur, is set to be proposed for the job by East Zone, whose turn it is to project the candidate for the coveted post.He is currently serving as the Secretary of the Board
Thakur, also a BJP MP in Lok Sabha, has the backing of all the east zone members including Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Tripura and the National Cricket Club.
The 41-year-old will be taking over the reins of the embattled Board in rather tough times as the BCCI is facing heat from the Supreme Court to implement the Justice R M Lodha Committee’s recommendations for sweeping reforms.Manohar’s exit from the top post barely seven months into his tenure has necessitated the election of the new chief of the world’s richest and most powerful cricket body.
He was elected as ICC’s first independent chairman on May 12.

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