Wednesday, September 27 2006 12:54 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Mumbai: The 77th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Cricket Board starting here today (27 Sep, 2006) is set to be a tame affair after reigning President Sharad Pawar and his three other confidantes are declared elected unopposed for a two-year term yesterday (26 Sep, 2006).

Union Agriculture Minister and Mumbai Cricket Association president Pawar, secretary Niranjan Shah of Saurashtra, joint secretary M P Pandove of Punjab and treasurer N Srinivasan of Tamil Nadu are declared elected without the need for any election, Shah announces on the eve of the two-day AGM.

"All the four have been elected unopposed. The five vice-presidents (one each from the five zones constituting the BCCI) would be elected on the floor of the house tomorrow as per the practice," Shah says.

All the elected office bearers, plus the senior and junior selection committees that would be constituted on the floor of the house today (27 Sep, 2006), would have a two-year term following an amendment to the BCCI constitution earlier this year.

Yesterday's (26 Sep, 2006) development is on expected lines given the brute majority enjoyed by Pawar and the ruling group as against a decimated opposition led by former BCCI and ICC chief Jagmohan Dalmiya who is not even able to attend the meeting after having been suspended on allegations of misappropriating PILCOM accounts.