Wednesday, February 19th, 2025

BCCI will not get a new secretary soon, there is no discussion yet on the name to replace Jay Shah


New Delhi. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is not going to get a new secretary soon. The BCCI Apex Council will discuss several issues related to the functioning of the board on Wednesday. Among these issues, the appointment of a new secretary in place of outgoing secretary Jay Shah is not included in the agenda. This will be the last meeting of the Apex Council before the 93rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Board to be held in Bengaluru.

The appointment of a new secretary has become necessary after Jay Shah was unanimously elected as the ICC chairman. However, Jay Shah will continue to play his/her current role as BCCI secretary during the upcoming AGM. he/she has to take up his/her new position in the ICC from December 1.

Leave aside the name of the new secretary, discussion on the nomination process is also on the agenda of the Apex Council. The issues to be discussed include the Byju controversy. BCCI has a payment settlement dispute with its former title sponsor Byju. This edtech firm ended its contract with BCCI in March last year.

Byju’s company had signed a three-year jersey sponsorship contract in March 2019. This was later extended for another year for a reported amount of $55 million. Payments were made till September 2022. The dispute is regarding the payment of dues from October 2022 to March 2023.

The inauguration of the state-of-the-art National Cricket Academy (NCA) on the outskirts of Bengaluru will also be discussed. Currently, the NCA functions at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium complex since its inception more than two decades ago.

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