N Srinivasan, the former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chief and Tamil Nadu strongman, has been... Read More

MUMBAI: N Srinivasan was on Monday dethroned as the ICC Chairman after the BCCI decided to recall him and nominate its recently-elected President Shashank Manohar as the chief of the world body.

The decision to remove Srinivasan was taken at the BCCI's 86th Annual General Meeting here today, virtually signalling the end of his hold on Indian cricket.

Also in the meeting, as expected, BCCI cracked the whip on the conflict on interest issue with Indian team director Ravi Shastri ousted from IPL governing council and Roger Binny, who was the national selector from the South Zone, too have been replaced by MSK Prasad. Roger's son Stuart Binny is part of the Indian cricket team. In the senior selection committee, Rajinder Hans has been replaced by Gagan Khoda.

It is learnt that the resolution favouring replacing Srinivasan with Manohar was passed at the AGM. In case, Manohar cannot attend the ICC meetings, Sharad Pawar will be India's representative. Former India international and bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad has been appointed chairman of the junior selection panel.

The Tamil Nadu strongman will thus lose his grip on Indian cricket for good after having already been ousted as the BCCI President owing to the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal in which his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was held guilty of betting charges.

Although Srinivasan was not personally indicted for the damaging scandal but the Supreme Court-appointed R M Lodha committee had chided him for not acting on the elements which corrupted the IPL.

With his sacking as ICC chairman, Srinivasan now only remains the president of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association. His company India Cements had owned the IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, which was suspended for two years after its officials were held guilty of betting.

(Read this story in Telegu here)

