List of presidents of the Board of Control for Cricket in India

The President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India is the highest post at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which administers cricket in India.^[4][5] Though the post is an honorary one, it is considered a highly prestigious post due to popularity of the game in the India and the financial clout of the organisation.^[6] Over the years influential politicians, royalty and businessmen have occupied the post of President.^[7] The president is elected at the BCCI's Annual General Meeting by the member associations of the BCCI with the outgoing president also getting a vote as the chairman of the meeting.^[8] The post is rotated zone-wise amongst the five zones of BCCI and a person can hold the post of BCCI president for a maximum of three years.^[9]

President of Board of Control for Cricket in India
Incumbent Roger Binny since 18 October 2022
Board of Control for Cricket in India
Appointer	Full Members of the BCCI[1]
Term length	3 Years [2]
Inaugural holder	R. E. Grant Govan
Formation	1928 (96 years ago) (1928)
Salary	₹ 5 crore[3]
Website	https://www.bcci.tv

In case of a vacancy, as per the Supreme Court of India, the most senior BCCI vice-president and the joint secretary would take over the interim roles of president and secretary respectively till fresh elections are held.^[10] In its report in January 2016, the three-member Lodha Committee recommended the creation of the post of the CEO, with panel stressing the need for the BCCI to separate its governance and management duties, with the CEO taking charge of the management side and also made recommendations for a clear segregation of operational duties from the governance and policy-makers in the board.^[11] In April 2016, Rahul Johri was appointed first ever chief executive officer of BCCI.^[12]

List of BCCI Presidents^[13]

No.	Image	President	Term	Honorary Secretary	Term
1		R. E. Grant Govan	1928–33	Anthony de Mello[β]	1928–38
2		Sikandar Hayat Khan	1933–35
3		Hamidullah Khan	1935–37
4		K. S. Digvijaysinhji	1937–38
5		P. Subbarayan	1938–46	K. S. Ranga Rao	1938–46
6		Anthony de Mello	1946–51	Pankaj Gupta	1946–48
				M. G. Bhave	1948–51
7		J. C. Mukherji	1951–54	A. N. Ghose[β]	1951–60
8		Maharajkumar of Vizianagram	1954–56
9		Surjit Singh Majithia	1956–58
10		R. K. Patel	1958–60
11		M. A. Chidambaram	1960–63	M. Chinnaswamy[β]	1960–65
12		Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad	1963–66
				S. Sriraman	1965–70
13		Zal Irani	1966–69
14		A. N. Ghose	1969–72
				M.V. Chandgadkar	1970–75
15		Purshottam M. Rungta	1972–75
16		Ramprakash Mehra	1975–77	Ghulam Ahmed	1975–80
17		M. Chinnaswamy	1977–80
18		S. K. Wankhede	1980–82	A.W. Kanmadikar	1980–85
19		N. K. P. Salve	1982–85
20		S. Sriraman	1985–88	Ranbir Singh Mahendra[β]	1985–90
21		Biswanath Dutt	1988–90
22		Madhavrao Scindia	1990–93	Jagmohan Dalmiya[β]	1990–91[RES]
				C. Nagaraj	1991–93
23		I. S. Bindra	1993–96	Jagmohan Dalmiya[β]	1993–97
24		Raj Singh Dungarpur	1996–99
				Jaywant Y. Lele	1997–99
25		A. C. Muthiah	1999–2001	Niranjan S. Shah	1999–2003
26		Jagmohan Dalmiya	2001–04
				S. K. Nair	2003–04
27		Ranbir Singh Mahendra	2004–05	Niranjan S. Shah	2004–08
28		Sharad Pawar	2005–08
29		Shashank Manohar	2008–11	N. Srinivasan[β]	2008–11
30		N. Srinivasan	2011–13[RES]	Sanjay Jagdale	2011–13
(26)		Jagmohan Dalmiya (Interim)	2013	Sanjay Patel	2013–15
(30)		N. Srinivasan	2013–14[§]
31		Shivlal Yadav (Interim)	2014
32		Sunil Gavaskar (Interim)	2014
(26)		Jagmohan Dalmiya	2015[†]
(29)		Shashank Manohar[RES]	2015–16	Anurag Thakur[β]	2015–16
33		Anurag Thakur[14]	2016–17[§]	Ajay Shirke[14]	2016–17[§]
34		C. K. Khanna (Interim)[15]	2017–19	Amitabh Choudhary	2017–19
35		Sourav Ganguly	2019–22	Jay Shah	2019–
36		Roger Binny[16]	2022–

Key † Died in office § Sacked or removed from office RES Resigned β Later become President

References

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