Shashank Manohar on the verge of quitting as BCCI president

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is likely to lose the services of its current president, Shashank Manohar in a couple of weeks as the Nagpur-based lawyer is on the verge of resigning from his top post, somewhere around the middle of May. The 58-year-old took his current office as the president of Indian cricket’s governing body last October after the demise of the erstwhile BCCI president, Jagmohan Dalmiya in September 2015.

Shashank Manohar is currently enjoying his holiday at Mahabaleshwar near Pune, which happens to be the current BCCI president's annual summer destination. According to a number of sources, Manohar is likely to submit his resignation letter immediately after he resumes office, approximately around the 2nd or the 3rd week of May.

Although the president himself is yet to speak on this issue, his close confidantes at the BCCI believe that the Nagpur-based lawyer is likely to call it quits a week before the International Cricket Council (ICC) elects its first independent chairman. If elected as the ICC's first ever independent chairman in May 2016, Shashank Manohar will be eligible to hold the coveted post until 2021.

According to a close colleague of Manohar at the BCCI, “In the present scenario, he (Shashank Manohar) knows he can't do much in the BCCI with the way the Supreme Court is viewing things.”

The person, later, added, “The ICC post gives him a stable five-year window and an opportunity to make history as possibly the administrator who brought all countries (member boards of the ICC) together, and struck off the so-called monopoly of the Big Three. Look how the West Indies and Pakistan boards have already started praising him for what he's done.”

Multiple resignations may be in line for BCCI

Although the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has roped in the services of its new CEO, Rahul Johri, the organization is likely to witness a mass exodus except that of its current president, Shashank Manohar's.

According to a top-notch BCCI official, “For a lot of professionals- who were employed on a salaried or contract basis- this could be their last IPL. Quite a few of them will soon be on their way out.”