Bengaluru: The 93rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will be held on September 29 but the election of the new secretary of the board is unlikely to take place in this meeting.
However, the AGM will inaugurate the state-of-the-art National Cricket Academy (NCA) on the outskirts of the city. All members of the board will be present in the city.
The NCA has been operating from the M Chinnaswamy Stadium complex since it came into existence more than two decades ago. The new BCCI secretary will not be elected in the AGM but the date of the Special General Meeting (SGM) for the election can be fixed in this meeting.
The appointment of a new secretary has become mandatory after outgoing secretary Jay Shah was unanimously elected chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Shah, however, will not leave his present role of BCCI secretary in MGM as he has to take over the charge of ICC chairman from December 1. Other important points in the 18-point agenda of the meeting sent to all the state associations is the appointment of a BCCI representative in ICC meetings as Shah will no longer be available for that role.
The name of current BCCI President Roger Binny may be discussed for the board’s representative in the ICC or this post may be given to the new secretary. But age is not in his favor for 69-year-old Binny as the maximum age to join the administration is 70 years. Apart from these two important matters, the AGM will include two representatives of the General Assembly and one representative of the Indian Cricketers Association (ICA) in the IPL Governing Council. The AGM will also include some regular activities of the board like approval of the annual budget for 2024-25 and appointment of Ombudsman and Conduct Officer.
The meeting will appoint the Cricket Committee and the Standing Committee as per the BCCI Constitution, as well as form a new umpire committee under Rule 27. Apart from approving the rules made by the apex council related to domestic cricket, the AGM will also consider the ‘Report of the BCCI Internal Committee constituted under the Sexual Harassment Prevention Policy’.
