Hemang Amin, the Chief Operating Officer of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been appointed interim chief executive officer (CEO) of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). BCCI secretary Jay Shah informed the affiliates of Amin’s elevation.
“As you might be aware, Mr. Rahul Johri who was the CEO, has resigned and is now no longer with BCCI. We have appointed Mr. Hemang Amin as the interim CEO of the BCCI,” Shah wrote in an email. “I request you to extend all possible co-operations to Mr. Amin in his new role.”
The email confirms that the BCCI office-bearers have accepted Johri’s resignation. Amin will succeed Johri, as an interim CEO.
BCCI is struggling over a tough phase currently. It has seen the chief financial officer Santosh Rangnekar and Vice-President Mahim Verma resign from their posts.
In the next couple of months, the unless the Supreme Court agrees to hear the BCCI’s appeal against reforms, the Board could soon be without a president and secretary, with Sourav Ganguly and Shah, respectively, being forced into serving a cooling-off period at the end of July as per existing rules.
Amin will also have to take tough decisions with the International Cricket Council (ICC). These will be ranging from tax sops for organising the next T20 World Cup and continuing BCCI’s plan of staging the IPL’s postponed 2020 edition in the midst of the pandemic.