N Srinivasan sacked as ICC Chairman, BCCI President Shashank Manohar to take over

Manohar would remain Chairman till the next ICC Annual Conference in June

Mumbai

: N Srinivasan has been removed from his post as ICC Chairman and BCCI President Shashank Manohar is set to take over the tainted Tamil Nadu strongman’s post in a move that has put Srini’s stronghold over Indian and world cricket to an end.

The decision was taken during the BCCI’s 85th AGM meeting at its headquarters, here on Monday. Appointment of the ombudsman, or Ethics Officer, is one of the key changes that have been proposed in the BCCI's Memorandum of Rules and Regulations to be taken up at the AGM.

Recent report suggest that BCCI would change its nomination vis-à-vis ICC and the Nagpur lawyer would be the new ICC chairman till the Annual Conference of the world governing body in June when the Indian board-nominated person’s term comes to an end.

With the soon-to-be-delivered recommendations over governance reforms by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha Committee hanging over them, the Board members are all set to clear the way for this path-breaking move which was announced by Shashank Manohar after being re-elected as the BCCI president last month.

The AGM, which was postponed by more than a month from its normal late September date, is expected to put in place strict compliance protocols to the conflict of interest regulations in the wake of the Supreme Court's cracking of the whip on this matter.

Another important change in the proposed clauses is about the BCCI president approving every team picked by the national selection panel. The existing clause says that the president -"shall approve the composition of the team selected by the Selection Committee-", while the proposed clause reads, -"The President, along with the Office Bearers, shall approve the composition of a team selected by the National Selection Committee from time to time.-"