Shashank Manohar likely to quit BCCI post

Board of Control for Cricket in Indian (BCCI) President Shashank Manohar is likely to quit his post at the BCCI in mid-May. The news has come at a time when the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced its agenda of having the secret ballot to elect its first independent chairman.

Manohar is currently in Mahabaleshwar and is expected to return to the headquarters in mid-May and end his 8-month long tenure as the board president. If he quits, he will have the second shortest stint as the BCCI head after Jagmohan Dalmiya’s stint at the post last year that lasted just 6 months.

If Manohar gets elected as the ICC President, he will take over the post immediately and will serve till 2021. Some of his close acquaintances recently said that with the kind of interferences Supreme Court is making in the BCCI functioning, Mahohar has very less to do as an independent president.  “In the present scenario, he (Manohar) knows he can’t do much in the BCCI with the way the Supreme Court is viewing things,” they say.

However, if he takes up the ICC post, he will have his opportunities to do something more for the game and all the cricket playing nations.

“The ICC post gives him a stable five-year window and an opportunity to make history as possibly the administrator who brought all countries (member boards of the ICC) together, and struck off the so-called monopoly of the Big Three. Look how the West Indies and Pakistan boards have already started praising him for what he’s done,” they added further.

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