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Cricket: Manohar quits as India board chief

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Chief Shashank Manohar leaves after attending a meeting at BCCI headquarters in Mumbai.

Shashank Manohar resigned as the president of the Indian cricket board on Tuesday, as the embattled organisation comes under growing pressure from the country's top court to introduce wide-ranging reforms.

Manohar wrote to board secretary Anurag Thakur to announce his resignation "with immediate effect", in a move expected to trigger his bid for re-election as chairman of the International Cricket Council.

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