N Srinivasan out of ICC, Shashank Manohar to be new chief

N Srinivasan was on Monday dethroned as the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) after the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI), in its annual general meeting here, decided to nominate current president Shashank Manohar for the world cricket body's top post.

"The BCCI's representative to the ICC will be Shashank Manohar. By virtue of being the board's representative to the ICC, he will take over as ICC chairman," Thakur said. NCP chief Sharad Pawar was nominated as the alternate director.

It signaled a premature end to Srinivasan's tenure as the ICC boss, who took over the post in June 2014 for two years. The BCCI decision to remove Srinivasan didn't come as a surprise. Manohar had promised to clean up the mess that the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal had created in the BCCI and there were enough hints that the axe would fall on the cement baron.

In another major decision, Anil Kumble was removed as the head of the BCCI's technical committee due to his conflict of interest. The former India captain is also the co-founder of Tenvic, a sports training and consulting company as well as the mentor of IPL franchise Mumbai Indians.

Kumble was replaced by Sourav Ganguly. The conflict of interest sword also fell on national selector Roger Binny and team director Ravi Shastri, who was dropped from the IPL Governing Council.