Sanjay Jagdale

Calcutta: Sanjay Jagdale, Central’s man on the outgoing senior selection committee, is tipped to be the next joint secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

“The offer has been made and we’re confident that Jagdale will accept it,” a key member of the ruling group told The Telegraph on Saturday.

Jagdale couldn’t be reached for a comment, but somebody close to him suggested he would give his consent in a couple of days.

The lanky one-time allrounder, who played a fair bit of first-class cricket, is the Madhya Pradesh association’s secretary.

Punjab’s Mohinder Pandove, the current joint secretary, is going to be the next treasurer as the one in that chair for the past three years, N. Srinivasan, will succeed Niranjan Shah as secretary.

Shah’s term ends at the September 27-28 AGM and it’s quite likely that he will get a position of importance either in the Indian Premier League or in a special committee to oversee preparations for the 2011 World Cup.

Meanwhile, Tripura’s Arindam Ganguly is set to be the vice-president from East. He’d been favoured to get the position in 2006 itself, but MP Rajeev Shukla got himself elected.

The influential Shukla (who heads UP), one learns, will become the finance committee chairman. It’s a key post, but hardly glamorous.

As the vice-president from Central, Shashank Manohar, is the next BCCI president, the vacancy there will be filled by Lalit Modi, vice-president from North.

Modi heads the Rajasthan association, an affiliated unit from Central, but that didn’t stop him from becoming a vice-president from another zone.

Strange, yes, but Modi can turn around and say he didn’t set a precedent.

Significantly, it’s as good as confirmed that Delhi’s Arun Jaitley, another MP, will take Modi’s place. It will be a comeback for Jaitley, who is highly respected across the BCCI.

Where West is concerned, either Baroda’s Chirayu Amin will continue or he will be replaced by Maharashtra’s Ajay Shirke. It’s not clear whether Goa’s Dayanand Narvekar will remain the vice-president from South.

“The South issue should be sorted out in the next few days,” the ruling group member pointed out.