IN line with the recent trend, all the office bearers of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) were elected unopposed on Sunday at an Annual General Body Meeting in Mumbai. Former Delhi captain Mithun Manhas was the only candidate in the fray for the president’s post, like it was the case when World Cup winning allrounder Roger Binny became president in 2022 and before him former India captain Sourav Ganguly in 2019. Ganguly was among the former Test cricketers whose names were doing the rounds for potential president, but he like the others didn’t file nominations.

Manhas, born in Jammu in J&K, is the third consecutive former cricketer to become the BCCI president, a period marked by the lack of palace intrigue and absence of different camps. Jay Shah, son of home minister

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