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[caption id="attachment_5014" align="alignnone" width="580"] Anurag Thakur set to take over as next BCCI President. Image Source: File Pic[/caption] Internet Desk: Anurag Thakur is all set to be named as the next president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), following the resignation of Shashank Manohar from the top post. Manohar was elected as an independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and it is expected that Thakur will find no competition to become the president of the world’s most powerful and richest cricket governing body. It is being reported that Thakur has been nominated as the candidate by all six associations from the East Zone in the country, and Ajay Shirke is likely to take over the post of the BCCI’s secretary. Anurag Thakur's aspiration to become Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president received a boost after the Supreme Court declined to entertain a petition to stop the current BCCI secretary from contesting the Board elections scheduled on Sunday. The petition was filed by Cricket Association of Bihar, the organisation which had initiated the 2013 IPL match-fixing case that finally led to the suspension of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals from the league for two seasons. The Supreme Court said the Bench hearing the IPL corruption case and discussing the Lodha panel report can hear the petition after the summer vacation. Bihar's petition says as per Lodha panel, charge-sheeted persons can't contest BCCI polls. The petition wanted either the BCCI polls be stayed or Thakur restrained from contesting. Meanwhile,  Anurag Thakur is all set to be named as the next president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), following the resignation of Shashank Manohar from the top post. Manohar was elected as an independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and it is expected that Thakur will find no competition to become the president of the world’s most powerful and richest cricket governing body. It is being reported that Thakur has been nominated as the candidate by all six associations from the East Zone in the country, and Ajay Shirke is likely to take over the post of the BCCI’s secretary. On the other hand, Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) is to be represented by its joint secretary, P V Shetty, at the Special General Meeting (SGM) of the Cricket Board in Mumbai on May 22 to elect the new BCCI president following the resignation of Shashank Manohar from that post last week. MCA would normally have been represented by its president, Sharad Pawar, but he will not be available to attend the BCCI SGM as he's scheduled to travel overseas during that period, it was learnt.