Anurag Thakur Elected BCCI President, Ajay Shirke New Secretary

Anurag Thakur is the 34th BCCI President and he nominated Ajay Shirke to replace him as the Secretary.

• Anurag Thakur, on Sunday, was unanimously elected as the youngest BCCI President post-Independence. The 41-year-old replaced Shashank Manohar, who quit, to take up the ICC chairman’s job. Senior BCCI vice-president CK Khanna chaired the Special General Meeting and announced Thakur’s name.
  
  
• Thakur got the signatures of all six east zone units in his BCCI presidential nomination form on Saturday. He chose Maharashtra Cricket Association Chief Ajay Shirke for his replacement as the Secretary.
  

• Anurag Thakur will go into the books as the first, first-class cricketer to turn BCCI president after Raj Singh Dungarpur lay down office in 1998-99. Thakur is also the third person backed by East Zone to be elected to the top post during the 2014-2017 period.
  
  
• Son of two-time former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, he is himself a three-time Lok Sabha MP from Himachal’s Hamirpur district and is expected to be in office till September, 2017.
  
  
• Being one of the younger officials in BCCI, he shares a good rapport with the national team’s past and present cricketers. The likes of Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, all made comebacks into national fold after he took over as the secretary and became the convener of the senior selection committee.
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(With inputs from PTI)