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Supreme Court judges in India have ordered the dismissal of the most senior figure in Indian cricket over the failure to enact a series of recommended reforms, plunging the game's most powerful body into turmoil.<br>In a shock ruling, a panel of Supreme Court judges said Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Anurag Thakur and number two Ajay Shirke must stand down immediately.<br>Thakur said he would respect the decision, while voicing bitterness at the court for siding with a retired judge who had been demanding the shake-up in the BCCI's governance.<br>      India's Supreme Court has ordered the dismissal of Anurag Thakur as president of the country's powerful cricket board over the failure to enact recommended reforms<br> My statement on the Supreme Court [ ][ ][ ] 'The Supreme Court passes an order directing the BCCI president and secretary to desist from any board functions from here on,' said the ruling.<br>The order comes after judges slapped restrictions on the BCCI last year over its failure to implement a series of reforms recommended by a panel headed by a former top judge,  [http://allinfootballncricket.mystrikingly.com/blog/virat-prem-kohli allinfootballncricket.mystrikingly.com] Rajendra Mal Lodha.<br>Cricket's massive popularity in India has helped the BCCI become by far the wealthiest of all of the sport's national boards, netting massive money from sponsorship and TV deals.<br>        Virat Kohli celebrates: India are the number one ranked Test team in the world<br>        <br>        <br>But it has also been embroiled in a series of scandals, including accusations of corruption and match-fixing that tarnished the Indian Premier League (IPL) - the board's lucrative Twenty20 competition.<br>A corruption and match-fixing scandal in the sixth edition of the IPL in 2013 brought about the downfall of the board's then-president Narayanaswami Srinivasan after his son-in-law was accused of betting on matches.<br><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS home" data-version="2" id="mol-9f8d8c20-c307-11e6-a267-5b194b49a25a" website clean-up: Court orders sacking of BCCI chief Anurag Thakur
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