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. 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. Over the years influential politicians, royalty and businessmen have occupied the post of president. 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. 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.
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. 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. In April 2016, Rahul Johri was appointed first ever chief executive officer of BCCI.
List of Presidents +List of presidents of Board of Control for Cricket in IndiaNo.ImagePresidentTermHonorary SecretaryTerm1R. E. Grant Govan1928–33Anthony de Mello1928–382Sikandar Hayat Khan1933–353Hamidullah Khan1935–374K. S. Digvijaysinhji1937–385P. Subbarayan1938–46K. S. Ranga Rao1938–466Anthony de Mello1946–51Pankaj Gupta1946–48M. G. Bhave1948–517J. C. Mukherji1951–54A. N. Ghose1951–608Maharajkumar of Vizianagram1954–569Surjit Singh Majithia1956–5810R. K. Patel1958–6011M. A. Chidambaram1960–63M. Chinnaswamy1960–6512Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad1963–66S. Sriraman1965–7013Zal Irani1966–6914A. N. Ghose1969–72M. V. Chandgadkar1970–7515Purshottam M. Rungta1972–7516Ramprakash Mehra1975–77Ghulam Ahmed1975–8017M. Chinnaswamy1977–8018S. K. Wankhede1980–82A.W. Kanmadikar1980–8519N. K. P. Salve1982–8520S. Sriraman1985–88Ranbir Singh Mahendra1985–9021Biswanath Dutt1988–9022Madhavrao Scindia1990–93Jagmohan Dalmiya1990–91C. Nagaraj1991–9323I. S. Bindra1993–96Jagmohan Dalmiya1993–9724Raj Singh Dungarpur1996–99Jaywant Y. Lele1997–9925A. C. Muthiah1999–2001Niranjan S. Shah1999–200326Jagmohan Dalmiya2001–04S. K. Nair2003–0427Ranbir Singh Mahendra2004–05Niranjan S. Shah2004–0828Sharad Pawar2005–0829Shashank Manohar2008–11N. Srinivasan2008–1130N. Srinivasan2011–13Sanjay Jagdale2011–13(26)Jagmohan Dalmiya (Interim)2013Sanjay Patel2013–15(30)N. Srinivasan2013–1431Shivlal Yadav (Interim)201432Sunil Gavaskar (Interim)2014(26)Jagmohan Dalmiya2015(29)Shashank Manohar2015–16Anurag Thakur2015–1633Anurag Thakur2016–17Ajay Shirke2016–1734C. K. Khanna (Interim)2017–19Amitabh Choudhary2017–1935Sourav Ganguly2019–22Jay Shah2019–2436Roger Binny2022–25Devajit Saikia (Acting)2024–25Devajit Saikia2025–Incumbent37Mithun Manhas2025–Incumbent
Key Died in office Sacked or removed from office Resigned Later become President
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