“It’s an absolute honour to be the president of the world’s finest cricketing board,” Manhas said after the AGM in Mumbai. “At the same time it’s a huge responsibility and I give my assurance that I’ll be committed to do it to the best of my abilities and dedication and passion.”
When asked what worked in his favour to become the new BCCI president, he said: “Maybe my work, my credentials as a cricketer, as an administrator. For the past four years I’ve been at the J&K Cricket Association.”
Manhas, who will turn 46 in October, played domestic cricket for 20 years from 1997-98 to 2016-17. He played 157 first-class games, in which he scored 9714 runs; 130 List A matches, with 4126 runs; and 91 T20s (1170 runs). He was part of the sub-committee appointed by the BCCI to run the Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association. Born in Jammu, Manhas switched from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir in 2015 before retiring the following year. He has worked as a coach with various teams, including as batting consultant for the Bangladesh men’s Under-19 team as well as IPL sides Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings), Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans.
Jayesh George takes over as the chairperson of the Women’s Premier League committee, which has senior BCCI functionaries Manhas, Shukla, Saikia, Bhatia and Bhat, as well as Dhumal. The others are Madhumati Lele, Sanjay Tandon and RI Palani.
BCCI office bearers: Mithun Manhas (President), Rajeev Shukla (Vice-PRESIDENT), Devajit Saikia (Secretary), Prabhtej Bhatia (Joint-Secretary), A Raghuram Bhat (treasurer)
IPL governing council representatives: Arun Singh Dhumal, M Khairul Jamal Majumdar
Men’s selection committee: Ajit Agarkar (Chairperson), Shiv Sundar Das, Ajay Ratra, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha
Women’s selection committee: Amita Sharma (Chairperson), Shyama Dey, Sulakshana Naik, Jaya Sharma, Sravanthi Naidu
Junior cricket committee: S Sharath (Chairperson), Harvinder Sodhi, Pathik Patel, Krishna Mohan and Ranadeb Bose
WPL committee: Jayesh George (Chairperson), Mithun Manhas, Rajeev Shukla, Devajit Saikia, Prabhtej Bhatia, A Raghuram Bhat, Madhumati Lele, Sanjay Tandon, Ri Palani, Arun Singh Dhumal
Infrastructure committee: Rohan Jaitley (Chairperson), MithuN Manhas, Rajeev Shukla, Devajit Saikia, Prabhtej Bhatia, A Raghuram Bhat, Anirudh Chaudhury, Sana Sathish Babu
Vishal Dikshit is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo
