Mithun Manhas elected unopposed BCCI president

Mithun Manhas was elected unopposed as the 37th president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India at the body’s Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on Sunday, succeeding Roger Binny, who stepped down after reaching the board’s age limit of 70. The meeting approved a broad administrative and selection-panel reshuffle and signaled a renewed focus on grassroots scouting and domestic competition incentives.

Manhas, 45, a former Delhi batsman who played 157 first-class matches and scored 9,714 first-class runs with 27 centuries, becomes the first person from Jammu and Kashmir to hold the post. The board also appointed Rajeev Shukla as vice-president, Devajit Saikia as secretary, Prabhtej Singh Bhatia as joint-secretary and A Raghuram Bhat as treasurer, consolidating a new administrative team around the president.

The AGM confirmed changes to senior and junior selection panels. Ajit Agarkar will continue as chairman of the senior men’s selection committee, which now includes former India internationals Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh alongside existing members such as Shiv Sundar Das and Ajay Ratra. The two former internationals replace Subroto Banerjee and S. Sharath on the senior panel,...