Ratnakar Shetty

From being elected joint secretary of the BCCI in 2003 after serving on different committees of the Board since the late 1990s, to being appointed the Board's first chief administrative officer in 2006 and later as its general manager (Administration and Game Development), Prof. Ratnakar Shetty served Indian cricket in multiple capacities for over two decades. He joined Wilson College in South Mumbai as a lecturer in Chemistry after completing his MSc from the same institution, in 1975. This was before he entered cricket administration. He also served the Mumbai Cricket Association with distinction for nearly three decades. Prof. Shetty lives in Mumbai with his daughter Rachna. Devendra Prabhudesai was manager, Media Relations and Corporate Affairs, at the BCCI from 2008 to 2015. He has authored seven books including biographies on Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.