{"id":203019,"date":"2022-10-19T00:14:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=203019"},"modified":"2022-10-19T00:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:44:17","slug":"binny-elected-bcci-president-takes-over-from-ganguly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/19\/binny-elected-bcci-president-takes-over-from-ganguly\/","title":{"rendered":"Binny elected BCCI president, takes over from Ganguly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mumbai, 18 Oct: World Cup winner Roger Binny was on Tuesday elected as the 36th president of the BCCI, taking over from Sourav Ganguy to run the world&#8217;s richest cricket board.<br \/>\nBinny, 67, was elected unopposed at its AGM (Annual general Meeting) here alongside Jay Shah, who was re-elected as the secretary for a second successive term.<br \/>\nThe other office bearers who were elected unopp-osed included treasurer Ashish Shelar, vice-president Rajeev Shukla and joint secretary Devjit Saikia.<br \/>\nBinny, who played 27 Tests and 72 ODIs for India, takes charge ahead of the ODI World Cup in India next year.<br \/>\nHowever, there was no discussion on the chairmanship of International Cricket Council (ICC). The next ICC chairman will be elected during the board meeting in Melbourne next month.<br \/>\n&#8220;As far as India&#8217;s representative to the ICC is concerned, it will be decided by the office-bearers. There was no discussion on the ICC chairmanship. Only matters on the agenda were discussed,&#8221; a state unit official who attended the AGM told PTI.<br \/>\nIt is unlikely that the BCCI will nominate its own candidate for the ICC chairman&#8217;s position, with the October 20 nomination deadline approaching. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai, 18 Oct: World Cup winner Roger Binny was on Tuesday elected as the 36th president of the BCCI, taking over from Sourav Ganguy to run the world&#8217;s richest cricket board. Binny, 67, was elected unopposed at its AGM (Annual general Meeting) here alongside Jay Shah, who was re-elected as the secretary for a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}