Patel heads panel, More joins the list

Newly-elected secretary S K Nair will be the convenor of the committee.

The tenure of Patel, who replaced Shiv Lal Yadav, would be renewable for three more terms.

Kiran More has replaced Chandu Borde. Kirti Azad replaced Madan Lal as the selector of the North Zone while Pranab Roy replaced Ashok Malhotra in the East Zone.

Dalmiya re-elected BCCI president

Jagmohan Dalmiya tightened his grip on the Indian cricket board by getting himself re-elected as president unopposed and ensuring the victory of his man S K Nair as BCCI secretary.

With his detractors failing to put up a candidate for the president’s post, 60-year-old Dalmiya’s re-election was a foregone conclusion.

All attention was focussed on the duel for the secretary’s post at the 73rd annual general meeting of the board at a hotel here.

Dalmiya’s nominee and Board’s finance committee chief, Nair ousted the incumbent Niranjan Shah 18-12 in the elections with one vote out of the 31 polled being cancelled.

In the last AGM in Chennai, Dalmiya’s nominee and the then secretary J Y Lele had lost to Shah, the candidate fielded by A C Muthiah camp, by a single vote. Muthiah had cast the decisive vote for Shah.