Shashank Manohar set to replace N. Srinivasan as ICC chief
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New Delhi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) is all set to have a new chairman, with the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) likely to replace N. Srinivasan with its current chief Shashank Manohar. The decision to replace Srinivasan as the BCCI’s nominee to ICC is likely to be taken next Monday at BCCI’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Mumbai.
ICC revamped its governance structure and amended its constitution last July, making Srinivasan the first chairman of cricket’s governing body. BCCI’s latest move to replace its former chief will prematurely end his two-year tenure as ICC chairman.
The BCCI members, according to a report in cricket website ESPNCricinfo, felt that “it would be inappropriate to have Srinivasan continuing as the ICC chief”. It added: “Most of the BCCI members have expressed their desire to remove Srinivasan to Manohar, who had stepped up the drive to stamp out conflict of interest issues—one of Srinivasan’s main stumbling blocks—in Indian cricket since taking over as president.”
Srinivasan’s removal as the BCCI’s nominee should not come as a surprise, given the dispensation that is currently in charge of the board. His faction is believed to be severely weakened, following late Jagmohan Dalmiya’s election in March this year and Manohar’s subsequent return after Dalmiya’s death.
Manohar is known to be a fierce critic of his one-time colleague. In July this year, he said: “Srinivasan should have stepped down (as BCCI president) in 2013; no individual is ahead of the institution and he too is the root of all scandals and should immediately step down from his position as chairman of the ICC.” Even before his unanimous election as BCCI president last month, top officials within the board were considering Manohar as a possible candidate to replace Srinivasan at the ICC.
Over the last six months, Srinivasan was also involved in several ugly public run-ins with Anurag Thakur, who was elected BCCI secretary in March. Bitter about Srinivasan’s candidate losing a closely-fought election to Thakur, ICC, led by Srinivasan, wrote to BCCI that it had received unverified information about Thakur socializing with an alleged bookie. Soon after the ICC letter became public, there were reports claiming that Srinivasan had allegedly paid Rs.14 crore from the board’s coffers to a London-based spy agency to snoop on his fellow members. The bitter power struggle between the two ended in a temporary truce after Thakur and Srinivasan met in Barbados on the sidelines of an ICC meeting in June this year.
However, things between the two turned ugly again, just before Manohar’s elevation, when Srinivasan took Thakur to court in September, accusing the BCCI secretary of perjury in an application seeking legal clarity over his eligibility to attend BCCI meetings. The plea was later withdrawn after Manohar intervened.
Srinivasan first entered cricket administration in 2002, when he was elected the president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA). He entered the BCCI in 2005, when he was elected its treasurer. Three years later, in 2008, Srinivasan served as BCCI secretary before being elected president between 2011 and 2013. Srinivasan’s tenure as BCCI president has been controversial, with allegations of conflict of interest coming to the fore. He also was engulfed in the 2013 IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal, which involved his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan.
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