The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has come into the headlines as soon as once more, as reviews relating to Rajeev Shukla changing Roger Binny as the brand new BCCI president have gone viral. The BCCI vice-president has opened up on the potential for taking up the position.
Roger Binny shall be turning 70 on July 19, which can mark the top of his tenure because the president, and Shukla, being the vice-president of the board, will take over on an interim foundation for the following three months. Although the reviews are additionally suggesting that Shukla may stand within the subsequent election to be the full-time president, he immediately rubbished the talks round him taking up and claimed that it’s a procedural matter the place the vacant spot shall be taken over by the particular person subsequent in line on an interim foundation.
“These are ineffective talks. When one spot is about to get vacant, the particular person subsequent in line will get the interim cost earlier than the election. It’s a procedural factor,” Shukla was quoted as saying by OP India.
Roger Binny’s profitable tenure as BCCI president
Roger Binny took over the position because the BCCI President on October 18, 2022, succeeding Sourav Ganguly. Binny has loved a profitable tenure, the place the Indian males’s group is ranked primary in each white-ball codecs and on the fourth spot in Assessments. The India Girls’s group can be ranked third within the 50-over and 20-over codecs as effectively.
The Males in Blue has gained two ICC occasions below Binny’s presidency, which embrace the T20 World Cup in 2024 and the Champions Trophy in 2025. He additionally launched the Girls’s Premier League (WPL) to advertise feminine cricketers by way of a cash-rich franchise league. The WPL has had three seasons to this point, with the Mumbai Indians Girls being probably the most profitable group to this point, with two titles to their identify. Smriti Mandhana’s RCB additionally gained it as soon as in 2024.