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Dilip Vengsarkar got 402 votes to Ashok Malhotra’s 230 in an online election held over 3 days – Getty Images
Former India captains Dilip Vengsarkar and Shubhangi Kulkarni were on Saturday chose to represent the Indian Cricketers’ Association (ICA) on the BCCI pinnacle council.
While Kulkarni was chosen unopposed as the female ICA agent, Vengsarkar beat outbound ICA president and previous India cricketer Ashok Malhotra. In e-voting held over 3 days, Vengsarkar got 402 votes compared to Malhotra’s 230.
Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy were the very first ICA agents in the BCCI with their period lasting from October 2019 to October2022 The Lodha reforms resulted in the addition of ICA agents on the BCCI pinnacle council.
Former India spinner Pragyan Ojha maintained his put on the IPL governing council. He beat Vijay Mohan Raj by 396 to 234 votes.
Vengsarkar, 66, has administrative experience as he has actually worked as the director of the National Cricket Academy and was likewise a primary selector of the nationwide group.
” The function is not really various to what I have actually done prior to [in sports administration],” Vengsarkar informed PTI. “I desire thank to all the previous cricketers who elected me. We are yet to meet the board authorities however we will certainly work for smooth coordination in between ICA and BCCI.”
Kulkarni functioned as secretary of the Women’s Cricket Association of India prior to ladies’s cricket was brought under the BCCI umbrella in 2006.
Kulkarani’s predecessor and previous India captain Rangaswamy invited her addition on the BCCI pinnacle council.
” She is among the very best administrators we have actually seen in ladies’s cricket,” Rangaswamy stated. “She played a crucial function in getting females’s cricket into the BCCI fold. I make sure she will do a great task in her brand-new function.”
Outgoing male agent Gaekwad was chosen unopposed as the ICA president. Rangaswamy and Yajurvindra Singh were chosen as ICA member agents and will act as directors on the ICA board.