India's cricket board has announced on Sunday 41-year-old current secretary Anurag Thakur as to be elected president of Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) its youngest ever president.
The 41-year-old Thakur replaced Shashank Manohar who quit the position to take up the ICC chairman’s job.
According to media reports, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a statement that Thakur, 41, was the "only" nomination and would be announced as its new chief following a meeting in Mumbai on Sunday.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted pictures on official siteTwitter of its members congratulating Thakur after electing him at a meeting in Mumbai.
Thakur, who is a member of parliament for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and a close ally of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, succeeds Shashank Manohar who stepped down earlier this month to become the first independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
He becomes the second-youngest president of the Board at the age of 41. The youngest was Fateh Singh Gaekwad, who became the BCCI president in 1963 at the age of 33, NDTV Sports.
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