NEW DELHI: Days before BCCI president Anurag Thakur was made head of the development committee of the International Cricket Council , the Indian board had tried to oust its former chief, Shashank Manohar, from the helm of the world governing body, sources told TOI BCCI had backed the candidature of Giles Clarke , head of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and a one-time N Srinivasan acolyte, to take over as ICC chairman by dislodging Manohar, sources said.They said the BCCI top brass wanted to float this proposal for voting in the Cape Town ICC executive board meeting last week. But in a great embarrassment, none of the Test playing nations `seconded' the motion.“To remove Manohar, BCCI was looking to get a Test playing nation to se cond the motion. But none of them came forward. All backed Manohar to continue,“ a top BCCI official told TOI on Tuesday .“Now that the matter is over, BCCI has decided to move on. The board has enough on its plate at home,“ the official said.Both Thakur and Shirke were unavailable for comment when TOI tried contacting them. BCCI officials had reached Cape Town two days be fore the meeting began.Through teleconferences from India via secretary Ajay Shirke , the BCCI top brass even took the help of former ICC chairman N Srinivasan to mobilise opinion against Manohar and discussed how he could be removed, the sources said.“It is true that Srinivasan was involved in the discussion to remove Manohar,“ a BCCI official confirmed. The board thought that by pressuring Manohar and trying to find his replacement, BCCI had a good chance of getting a post in the various ICC committees responsible for running the game. In their lobbying, the BCCI even offered Clarke the ICC chairmanship and had approached all Test playing nations with the proposal, the sources said.The BCCI was promised plum ICC committee posts in the previous ICC meeting in Edinburgh.“This was one of the reasons why Shirke skipped the ICC meeting. He didn't want to face Manohar,“ the source added.If any of the Test-playing nations would have seconded BCCI's motion, at least 75% votes out of 13-member ICC executive board would have been needed to remove Mano har. Out of 10 Test playing nations, ICC board would need at least eight full members to support the move. The rest three members of the ICC executive board are from the associate nations.The BCCI is at loggerheads with the ICC over the latter's decision to not write a letter protesting against the Lodha panel's reforms and how it would harm a member country if the reforms are forced on the Indian board.