Former Assam cricketer Devajit Saikia has changed Jay Shah to change into the brand new secretary of the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI). Saikia was elected because the secretary at a Particular Normal Assembly (SGM) on Sunday. In the meantime, Prabhtej Singh Bhatia has additionally taken cost because the treasurer within the assembly.
The 2 have been the one candidates who have been nominated for the secretary and treasurer posts. Saikia was the performing secretary of the BCCI after Jay Shah left the put up to change into the ICC chairman. Roger Binny had used his constitutional powers to nominate Saikia because the performing secretary.
Binny cited clause 7(1) (d) of the BCCI structure handy secretarial powers to Saika, who’s a former first-class cricketer and in addition an Advocate Normal of the state. “The president shall within the occasion of emptiness or indisposition shall delegate the capabilities to a different workplace bearer till the emptiness is duly crammed up or indisposition ceases.
“Accordingly, I delegate the capabilities of secretary to you until the put up is crammed up by processes laid down as per BCCI guidelines and laws. I’m assured you’ll carry out the duties to the perfect of your talents and with aplomb,” Binny wrote to Saikia.
Notably, Shah was the BCCI secretary from October 2019 onwards. Shah labored on totally different sides in his function because the BCCI secretary. He gave particular emphasis on home cricket and in addition equalled the match charges of the ladies’s gamers to that of the lads’s gamers.
Shah was additionally very lively in talking to the Indian gamers. He had backed Rohit Sharma to steer India within the T20 World Cup 2024 with an intention to hoist the Indian flag in Barbados, and that’s what occurred. “Rohit has the flexibility, we all know. As he confirmed within the ODI World Cup the place we gained 10 matches in a row till the ultimate. I’m assured that India will elevate the 2024 T20 World Cup beneath Rohit Sharma’s captaincy in Barbados,” Shah had mentioned throughout an occasion to rename the Saurashtra Cricket Affiliation Stadium in Rajkot the Niranjan Shah Cricket Stadium.