The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to part way with their Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Rahul Johri as his long-pending resignation was accepted on Thursday. While the top officials didn’t give away reason behind the same, one of the senior officials during a chat with PTI, that the board has accepted the resignation which was sent on December 27.

An anonymous BCCI official while talking to PTI said, “Rahul Johri’s resignation has been accepted. He was earlier given an extension till April 30, but this time it has been accepted.”

However it’s difficult to point out the exact reason for suddenly accepting his resignation, but there are some speculations that certain classified documents of the Board were leaked by Johri in the public domain. A former BCCI office-bearer raised a few questions on the former CEO as well. 

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As per the quotes in NDTV, a senior BCCI official said, “There should be at least some sanctity when it comes to dealing with official documents. The common refrain in BCCI corridors is that Johri didn’t keep that sanctity. If there is no trust, then how can people at the top believe him.”

It seems that recently the leaking of some specific mails in the media, especially, Cricket Australia (CA) chief Earl Eddings’ mail to ICC regarding the World T20 and one by CAG representative Alka Rehani Bhardwaj brought the downfall of Johri. 

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Johri had offered his resignation after the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) stepped out had made way for the Sourav Ganguly-led set-up to run the world’s richest cricket board. However, once the BCCI got back its administration, Johri’s responsibilities on the board came down significantly including some issues related to ICC, being handled by secretary Jay Shah.