BCCI to honour former boss Shashank Manohar at dinner function
Shashank Manohar resigned his post as BCCI president earlier this month to become the ICC's first independent chairman.
In Short
- Dinner function on the eve of SGM
- Successor to Manohar to be elected at BCCI's SGM on Sunday
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is all set to honour outgoing chief Shashank Manohar at a dinner function today. Manohar had become the first independent chairman of the International Cricket Council earlier this month.
"A dinner function has been organised in his honour as all the members will be present here for the SGM (on May 22)," said a BCCI said.
Manohar had resigned earlier this month as the BCCI president, just over six months after commencing his second stint in the post, in order to be eligible to become the ICC's first independent chairman.
The successor to the Nagpur-based lawyer will be elected at the BCCI's SGM on Sunday and the frontrunner appears to be current secretary Anurag Thakur.
The nomination for the new president, supported by at least one unit from the BCCI's East Zone associations, has to be filed by this evening.
In order to become the new BCCI president, Thakur will have to relinquish his current post and, in that case, a new BCCI secretary will have to be nominated at the SGM.
(With PTI inputs)