List of members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India

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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is the governing body of cricket in India, It is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the international governing body of cricket. BCCI is made up of full and associate member associations. These member associations are grouped into zones, depending on their location in India, North zone, Central zone, East zone, West zone and South zone.

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Most of the member associations govern cricket in their respective states while some govern the sport in their regions such as Mumbai, historic areas of Princely state such Hyderabad State, some govern it in Union territories such as Jammu and Kashmir, Pondicherry etc., government institutions such as Army, Services and Universities.

Affiliated Members

Membership of the Board of Control for Cricket in India is made up of Full Members and Associate Members. [1] [2]

Full Members

The majority of full members are state cricket associations. Each state is permitted one representative, except for Gujarat and Maharashtra, which have three. There are additional representatives from Indian Railways, Services and Universities. Changes recommended by the Lodha Committee included restricting full membership to state associations and limiting states to one full member, with the others becoming associate members, [3] but these have not been fully adopted by the BCCI, with existing members retaining full membership except for Cricket Club of India (Mumbai) and National Cricket Club (Kolkata). [4]

NameRepresentsPresidentZone
Andhra Cricket Association Andhra Pradesh P. Sarath Chandra Reddy South
Arunachal Cricket Association Arunachal Pradesh TC Tok East
Assam Cricket Association Assam Taranga GogoiEast
Association of Indian Universities Indian Universities Vinay Kumar Pathak
Baroda Cricket Association Vadodara Pranav Amin West
Bihar Cricket Association Bihar Rakesh Kumar TiwaryEast
Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh Chhattisgarh Jubin Shah Central
Cricket Association of Bengal West Bengal Snehasish GangulyEast
Cricket Association of Mizoram Mizoram Lalrochhuanga PachuauEast
Cricket Association of Uttarakhand Uttarakhand Jot Singh GunsolaCentral
Delhi & District Cricket Association Delhi Rohan Jaitley North
Goa Cricket Association Goa Vipul PhadkeSouth
Gujarat Cricket Association Gujarat
(excluding Saurashtra and Vadodara)
Dhanraj NathwaniWest
Haryana Cricket Association Haryana Paramjit MannNorth
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Himachal Pradesh Arun DhumalNorth
Hyderabad Cricket Association Telangana Jagan Mohan RaoSouth
Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association Jammu and Kashmir Anil GuptaNorth
Jharkhand State Cricket Association Jharkhand Sanjay SahayEast
Karnataka State Cricket Association Karnataka Raghuram Bhat AdwaiSouth
Kerala Cricket Association Kerala Jayesh GeorgeSouth
Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association Madhya Pradesh Abhilash KhandekarCentral
Maharashtra Cricket Association Maharashtra
(excluding Mumbai and Vidarbha)
Rohit Rajendra PawarWest
Manipur Cricket Association Manipur Nongthombam Zico MeeteiEast
Meghalaya Cricket Association Meghalaya Danny MarakEast
Mumbai Cricket Association Mumbai Amol KaleWest
Nagaland Cricket Association Nagaland Kechangulie RioEast
Odisha Cricket Association Odisha Pranab Prakash DasEast
Punjab Cricket Association Punjab Gulzar Inder ChahalNorth
Railways Sports Promotion Board Indian Railways D. K. GayenCentral
Rajasthan Cricket Association Rajasthan Vaibhav GahlotCentral
Saurashtra Cricket Association Saurashtra Jaydev ShahWest
Services Sports Control Board Indian Armed Forces Varun SinghNorth
Sikkim Cricket Association Sikkim Tika SubbaEast
Tamil Nadu Cricket Association Tamil Nadu Dr. P. Ashok SigamaniSouth
Tripura Cricket Association Tripura Tapan LodhEast
Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association Uttar Pradesh Dr. Nidhipati SinghaniaCentral
Vidarbha Cricket Association Vidarbha Vinay DeshpandeCentral

Associate Members

All members not meeting the criteria for full members are classified as associate members. They include:

NameRepresentsPresidentZone
Cricket Association of Pondicherry [lower-alpha 1] Puducherry G.M. Arunkumar South
Cricket Club of India [4] [6]
Madhumati Lele
National Cricket Club [4] [6]
-
Union Territory Cricket Association [7] Chandigarh
-
North

See also

Notes

  1. Puducherry became a full member of the BCCI in 2019, [5] but was not listed as a full member in the Memorandum of Association (constitution) as of September 2022. [2]

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