N Srinivasan Appointed as New BCCI President

N Srinivasan Appointed as New BCCI President

Srinivasan New BCCI President, Shukla IPL Boss

N Srinivasan officially replaced Shashank Manohar as the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at the Board's Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Mumbai on Monday 19 September, 2011.

Meanwhile, Krishnamachari Srikkanth has been retained as the Chairman of Selectors and Mohinder Amarnath will join the selection committee from North Zone while selectors Raja Venkat, Narendra Hirwani & Surendra Bhave will stay on, sources added.

In a major development Rajiv Shukla has been appointed as the IPL Chairman.


The other major appointments include Vilasrao Deshmukh as the Media Committee Chairman, Farukh Abdullah as the Marketing Committee Chairman, Jyotiradiya Scindia as Finance Committee Chairman while G Viswanath replaced Amarnath in the Governing Council.

India's embarassing defeat in England has led to the formation of a special committee which includes Amarnath and Anil Kumble among others as its members.