Jay Shah has taken over as the president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), replacing Nazmul Hasan of the Bangladesh Cricket Board. The position is rotated among the full members of the Asian boards every two years. The ACC is Asia's regional administrative body and it currently consists of 24 member associations. Usually, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) takes over as the head of the ACC, but in this case, it is the secretary of the BCCI taking over the position. Ehsan Mani, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, told Cricbuzz, "It is a smooth transition in the ACC. It is the turn of the BCCI and it is their prerogative to have whoever it wishes as the ACC president. My best wishes to him."
One of the biggest challenges before Shah would be to conduct the Asia Cup, a tournament which has serious diplomatic contours because of the participation of traditional rivals, India and Pakistan. The 2020 edition of the tournament could not take place due to the pandemic and has been postponed to June 2021. With BCCI President Sourav Ganguly currently in hospital after undergoing a successful angioplasty, Jay has been working overtime to decide on the fate of the domestic calendar in Indian cricket. On Friday night, he informed the state associations that after successfully organising the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament, the BCCI is now set to host the Vinoo Mankad Trophy - U19 limited-overs tournament - along with Vijay Hazare and senior women's one-dayers.
