BCCI Clean-up: After Thakur & Shirke, COA Sacks Their Appointees

The offices of Thakur and Shirke were closed by the new BCCI administrators and their associated officials sacked.

BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur. (Photo Courtesy: Twitter/@ianuragthakur)

The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (COA) has reportedly sacked employees attached to the offices of former board president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke. The BCCI office in New Delhi, from where Thakur used to operate, has been closed.

The Indian cricket team's media manager Nishant Jeet Arora also tendered his resignation on Monday. Arora reportedly resigned late on Sunday after he was told to relocate to the Cricket House in Mumbai.

Arora, who has been the BCCI’s media manager for 18 months now, had allegedly been leaking details from the Indian dressing room to former president Anurag Thakur, dna reported.

The board’s CEO, Rahul Johri, will now oversee the appointments and tenures of new BCCI officials.

COA member Diana Edulji said the panel had not named anyone and had only instructed that the offices be shut.

We had just said that President’ s Office in Delhi should be shut down and all those recruited in Delhi office will need to go. We never named Nishant but if he is a Delhi Office recruit then he has to go. But if his media manager’s contract is independent of it, then Rahul (BCCI CEO Rahul Johri) takes a final call. Nishant’s replacement will also be decided by Rahul.

Diana Edulji

The Supreme Court, on 30 January, appointed a four-member COA, headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai, to run the affairs of the Board of Control for Cricket in India after it sacked top officials Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke on 2 January.

(With inputs from ANI and Times of India, DNA)