Anurag Thakur new BCCI president
Anurag Thakur new BCCI president Anurag Thakur was unanimously elected as the youngest Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president post-Independence, while Ajay Shirke was chosen as Secretary in a smooth change of guard at a time when the world's richest Board is sailing through choppy waters. The 41-year-old Anurag Thakur replaced Shashank Manohar who quit the position to take up the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman's job. The Maharashtra Cricket Association chief and business magnate Shirke expectedly filled in the Secretary's post which was left vacant by Thakur's resignation on Saturday. Manohar's exit from the top post barely seven months into his tenure had necessitated the election of the new chief of the world's richest and most powerful cricket body. Soon after his resignation, Thakur got the signatures of all six east zone units in his BCCI presidential nomination from Saturday, paving the way for his unanimous ch...