Sunday, October 6, 2019

Ganguly, Azharuddin shortlisted to contest BCCI elections


Ganguly, Azharuddin shortlisted to contest BCCI elections

Former India captains, Sourav Ganguly and Mohmmad Azharuddin, have been nominated from their respective associations - Cricket Association of Bengal and Hyderabad Cricket Association - as representatives at the upcoming BCCI Annual General Meeting, set to be held on October 23.

As per the electoral draft released on Friday (October 4), Brijesh Patel (Karnataka Cricket Association), Jay Shah (Gujarat Cricket Association), Jaydev Shah (Saurashtra Cricket Association), Rajat Sharma (DDCA) and Rajiv Shukla (Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association) are some of the other distinguished names who figure on this list.

This list of 38 representatives that has been despatched by way of the state associations will be vetted by way of the BCCI's electoral officer N Gopalswami. Objections on the entries will have to be submitted with the aid of October 7, before 3:00 PM IST and the final electoral listing will be launched on October 10.

Only after the final list is released, will the kingdom associations have an choice to send in the names to contest for the a variety of positions in the BCCI elections. The positions of workplace bearers in the BCCI would consist of a president, a vice president, a secretary, a joint secretary and a treasurer. The other positions would consist of one seat in the apex council and two in the IPL governing council.

The eligibility of more than a few nation representatives would be a depend of rivalry as the Committee of Administrators has clarified that the country associations that don't adopt the Lodha tips in their nation constitution would not be eligible to vote.