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Ajay Shirke nominated as BCCI Secretary

| | May 22, 2016, at 10:25 pm
Mumbai, May 22 (IBNS) BCCI President Anurag Thakur on Sunday nominated Ajay Shirke as the Secretary of the Board as per the rules to fill up the vacancy created by his resignation.

Ajay Shirke will represent the BCCI at the CEC meetings of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

The members congratulated Shashank Manohar on his election as the independent Chairman of the ICC.

Rahul Johri and Santosh Rangnekar were introduced to the members of the Board as the new CEO and CFO, respectively.

It was decided that all state associations hosting Test matches should provide for minimum 10 per cent of their respective capacity as complimentary tickets for school children and special-abled people.

The Board discussed the need for all international venues to adopt energy and water conservation and the board will centrally prepare a proposal for installation of rain water harvesting, sewerage water treatment plants, solar panels and use of LEDs. It was proposed to set-up a corpus of INR 100 Crores towards the implementation of these initiatives.

"The Committee discussed the proposal to support cricketing activities of the physically handicapped, deaf and dumb and visually impaired cricketers. It was proposed to set-up a corpus of INR 5 Crores towards this initiative for next five years, the BCCI said in a statement.

The Committee discussed the need for all member associations of the BCCI to have their own websites and social media presence within the next six months. The Board will provide support to implement this initiative.

The Board will advertise for the post of the Head Coach and Assistant Coaches of the Indian National Cricket Team (Men), it said.

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