Listing the only 4 Indian players who became BCCI president

#3 Shivlal Yadav

Shivlal Yadav during his playing days

In 2014, former India player Shivlal Yadav was appointed, by the Supreme Court of India, as the interim BCCI president for all administrative issues not relating to the IPL.

Apart from his playing days, Shivlal is known for his decision to sack Mohammad Azharuddin as an Indian captain, during his days serving as a national selector. He was the secretary of the Hyderabad Cricket Association from 2000 to 2009 and also served as the BCCI vice-president in 2013.

His interim term as BCCI president didn’t start on a good note as he had to attend a court hearing in Hyderabad along with 20 other Hyderabad Cricket Association officials, who were alleged of misappropriation of funds while building of a new cricket stadium in Hyderabad.

Shivlal Yadav played 35 Tests for India, claiming 102 wickets that included three five-wicket hauls. He also represented India in seven ODIs where he took seven wickets. He made his Test debut against Australia at Bengaluru in September of 1979.

During the time, the famous Indian spin quartet of Erapalli Prasanna, Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Bishan Singh Bedi and BS Chandrasekhar were still bamboozling visiting teams at home. But Shivlal stepped up his game to form a formidable trio with Ravi Shastri and Dilip Doshi.

In his debut series, Shivlal picked up 24 wickets in five Tests against a strong Australian side. He took 15 wickets in the three-Test series in Australia and produced his best match-figures of eight for 118 which helped India enforce the follow-on.

Shivlal was never a big turner of the ball but was famous for bowling long spells. His perseverance ultimately paid off. He recorded spells of 75 overs against Pakistan in a single innings at Faisalabad in 1984 and went on to bowl more than 95 overs in that match.

Shivlal Yadav played his last Test in 1987 against Pakistan in Bengaluru.