Mumbai: BCCI media manager Nishant Jeet Arora has resigned from his duties of Indian cricket team's media manager as Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators closed offices of former BCCI president Anurag Thakur and ex-BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke.
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It was learnt that Arora tendered his resignation last evening after he was told that he has to shift to Mumbai at Cricket House where the staff works. He also didn't go to Hyderabad where Virat Kohli-led India will play Bangladesh in a one-off Test from February 9.
The Delhi office recruits were all former president Anurag Thakur's staff and with him being removed by Supreme Court, it was imperative that they would be laid off.
COA member Diana Edulji said that they have not named anyone but had only instructed for the closure of the office.
"We had just said that president' s Office in Delhi should be shut down and all those recruited in Delhi office will need to go. We never named Nishant but if he is a Delhi Office recruit then he has to go. But if his media manager's contract is independent of it, then Rahul (BCCI CEO Rahul Johri) takes a final call. Nishant's replacement will also be decided by Rahul," Edulji said.
Arora has been the BCCI media manager for 18 months and had been on tours to Australia, United States, West Indies to name a few.
Earlier, it was reported that Nishant Arora, who was working as Indian cricket team’s media manager, was accused of leaking details of dressing room talks to the former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Anurag Thakur.
Thakur was sacked as the president of the cricket board by the Supreme Court earlier this year, after BCCI failed to adhere to the recommendations made by the SC appointed Justice RM Lodha Committee.
As per a report in DNA, two senior members of the Indian team have reported the scenario to BCCI. According to the players, Nishant has been ‘over-indulgent’ in dressing room matters and has been reporting them ‘verbatim’ to Thakur.
A senior Team India member asked: “Is he (media manager) there to make things easy for us or to irritate us?”
“There is so much of mistrust between players about who is leaking our personal conversation to the outside world,” said the player.
“Media manager’s job is to deal with the media but this guy (Arora) is all over the place... inside dressing room, during team celebrations, in team discussions regarding playing eleven etc,” added the senior player.
Arora, who is still believed to be handling Thakur's social media accounts, had denied that he is leaking dressing room information to the former president.
