5 times Anurag Thakur showed who's the boss
The new President of the BCCI, Anurag Thakur has come in at a time when the board is fighting a battle against the Supreme Court against its complete re-structuring. This move to make Thakur the President has seemed to have paid off as he has achieved a lot of praise in his short stint as President.
An ambitious go-getter, Anurag Thakur has done a lot of good for the cricket administration in the country, especially in Himachal Pradesh. With the Lodha committee reforms looming over the BCCI, Thakur is ready to face the issue head on, and there is no one better to tackle this issue than him.
Time and again, he has proved as to why he is the right choice to be the President of the BCCI. Let's take a look at the times when Anurag Thakur showed us all who’s boss.
#1 Strict rule against match fixing
Just like a leader should be, Anurag Thakur is against all that is bad for cricket. The combative character he is, he was one of the rarest BCCI officials who had gone on the record, asking then President, N Srinivasan to step down from his post after the match-fixing scandal had broken out. As joint secretary at the time, he did not follow secretary Sanjay Jagdale and treasurer Ajay Shirke, who quit in a move to embarrass Srinivasan.
Most recently, he introduced a bill in the lower house which proposes 10 years of jail term for any sportsperson who indulges in match fixing. When a lower court in Delhi had recently revoked the MCOCA’s charges against S Sreesanth, Thakur was quick in maintaining that the Kerala speedster’s life ban would not be revoked whatsoever.
Since the beginning of his tenure, there have been no such reports of match fixing, and we all hope that it remains that way.