Former Test captain and all rounder Ravi Shastri was appointed new chairman of the Bangalore-based National Cricket Academy at the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s 78th AGM here after he agreed in principle to do the job.

However, the player-turned-TV commentator has sought “a day or two” to get back to BCCI and commit himself to the high-profile post after looking into his commitments, BCCI treasurer N Srinivasan said at a media conference after the meeting.

“Shastri has agreed in principle to take over as NCA chairman but has said he would get back to the Board after seeing into his commitments,” said Srinivasan.

Shastri is learnt to have demanded that NCA be shifted to Chandigarh from Bangalore. With the Punjab Cricket Association president I S Bindra supporting the idea, Shastri looks certain to take over the reins.

Srinivasan also formally announced that the AGM elected Vidarbha’s Shashank Manohar as President-elect to take over as its 29th president at next AGM.

BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah, however, said no interim president had been decided upon to take over from incumbent Sharad Pawar, who chaired Friday’s meeting, when he quits office in June next year to move over to the International Cricket Counil as its president next June.

Shah’s statement refuted reports in the media that Gujrat Cricket Association’s Chirayu Amin would be the interim president of the BCCI from the time Pawar quits and till Manohar assumes its reins.

Various committees were appointed at the AGM, including the all-powerful working committee but barring the senior and junior selection committees which continue from last year with Dilip Vengsarkar and Sanjeev Sharma heading them.

Srinivasan said for the first time a women’s committee headed by president-elect Manohar and selection committee with Anju Jain has been formed to look into the distaff side of the game.

The BCCI’s Annual Report, distributed for the first time ever to the media in its long history, also mentioned that the allotment for women’s cricket has been increased to Rs 7 crore next year from Rs 3.6 crore for this fiscal.

Barring some changes in some sub-committees, most of them remain the same, Srinivasan said.

The Working Committee has seen some changes because of the rotation system being followed for constituting this committee.

It has representatives of the five permanent Test staging centres, Karnataka, Punjab, Gujarat and Vidarbha who have held Tests last season and five other associations by rotation, according to Srinivasan.

Asked whether Shastri would be able to devote time for the job of NCA chairman, Srinivasan said it was not a full-time job and he would have others like Shivlal Yadav, former Test off-spinner, as coaches director, vice-chairman Ajay Shirke and a full time manager to assist him.