New Delhi: Mithun Manhas became the new president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) during the Board’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Mumbai on Sunday, September 28. The former Delhi skipper replaced Roger Binny to be elected as the new chief of the world’s richest cricket board.

Roger stepped down from the position after he turned 70 (BCCI’s office bearers have an upper age limit of 70). Rajiv Shukla, who was the vice-president, took charge in the meantime as interim president.

A fantastic fact about Mithun, which engaged fans, was that the former Delhi cricketer was the skipper of Delhi when Indian ace batter Virat Kohli made his Ranji Trophy debut in 2006.

Later, Kohli and Mithun reunited in the Indian Premier League (IPL), when Kohli was captaining Royal Challeng

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