MUMBAI, Aug 21: Amid a bulk of focus on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), crackdown on players who have aligned with the Indian Cricket League (ICL) there was another important development that took place in Indian cricket.

In order to ensure continuity the BCCI has declared a president-elect to succeed Sharad Pawar, the BCCI president. That office will be held by Chirayu Amin, president of the Baroda cricket association, for three months, and then by Shashank Manohar for three years through to 2011.

Pawar will become vice-president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in July 2008, and will then have to relinquish office at his home board. Amin will be the interim president for the three-month period – from July till September 2008 – when the elections are set to take place.

Once the ICC announced that David Morgan of the ECB, and Pawar from the BCCI, would take up office as the ICC president in 2008 and 2010 respectively, the BCCI decided to do something similar at home, wherein the president elect will be chosen a year in advance.

This suggestion came from Inderjit Singh Bindra, former president of the BCCI and current president of the Punjab Cricket Association.—Agencies