Dilip Vengsarkar defeated outgoing ICA president Ashok Malhotra, while Shubhangi Kulkarni used to be elected unopposed as the feminine ICA consultant at the BCCI Apex Council.
New Delhi ,UPDATED: Oct 30, 2022 07:41 IST
Dilip Vengsarkar replaces Ashok Malhotra as ICA consultant. (PTI Photograph)
By way of India Lately Internet Table: Former India captains Dilip Vengsarkar and Shubhangi Kulkarni were elected to constitute Indian Cricketers’ Affiliation (ICA) at the BCCI Apex Council.
Kulkarni used to be elected unopposed as the feminine ICA consultant at the BCCI Apex Council, while Vengsarkar defeated outgoing ICA president and previous India cricketer Ashok Malhotra. Within the e-voting held over 3 days, Vengsarkar gained 402 votes in comparison to Malhotra’s 230.
Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy had been the primary ever ICA representatives within the BCCI with their tenure from October 2019 to October 2022. The Lodha reforms ended in the inclusion of ICA representatives at the BCCI Apex Council.
In the meantime, former India spinner Pragyan Ojha retained his position at the IPL Governing Council. He defeated Vijay Mohan Raj through 396 to 234 votes. Vengsarkar, 66, comes with administrative enjoy, having served because the director of the Nationwide Cricket Academy and used to be additionally a primary selector of the nationwide workforce.
“The position isn’t very other to what I’ve executed earlier than (in sports activities management). I need thank to all of the former cricketers who voted for me. We’re but to satisfy with the board officers however we will be able to unquestionably paintings for clean coordination between ICA and BCCI,” Vengsarkar informed PTI.
Alternatively, Kulkarni served as secretary of the Girls’s Cricket Affiliation of India earlier than girls’s cricket used to be introduced underneath the BCCI in 2006. Kulkarani’s predecessor and previous India captain Rangaswamy welcomed her inclusion at the BCCI Apex Council.
“She is among the easiest directors we now have noticed in girls’s cricket. She performed a key position in getting girls’s cricket into the BCCI fold. I’m positive she is going to do a fantastic task in her new position,” stated Rangaswamy.
Outgoing male consultant Gaekwad used to be elected unopposed because the ICA president. Rangaswamy and Yajurvindra Singh had been elected as two ICA member representatives and can function administrators at the ICA board. Hitesh Majumdar and V Krishnaswamy had been elected ICA secretary and treasurer respectively.
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Oct 30, 2022