Is Ajit Agarkar leaving the BCCI? What the official record shows
Ajit Agarkar’s departure from the BCCI has not been officially confirmed. The available BCCI releases point to a specific committee role, not a resolved exit or extension.
The short answer is that Ajit Agarkar’s departure from the BCCI has not been officially confirmed in the cited BCCI releases.
What the official record does show is more specific: Agarkar held the role of Chairperson of the Men’s Selection Committee at a confirmed point in time, while his position after that date remains unresolved in the material available here.
The latest explicit role label is from 6 June 2026
The BCCI announced Agarkar’s appointment as Chairman of the Senior Men’s Selection Committee on 4 July 2023. That establishes when he entered the role, but the announcement does not by itself establish an end date.
A later BCCI release dated 6 June 2026, Team India (Senior Men) and India A squads announced, identified him as Chairperson of the Men’s Selection Committee. This confirms that the official role label was still being used on that date.
That is enough to reject a claim that he had already been officially removed before 6 June. It is not enough to prove that his tenure continued indefinitely afterwards.
What the 18 September AGM update actually says
The BCCI’s 95th Annual General Meeting update, dated 18 September 2026, records several AGM decisions but does not mention Agarkar’s continuation, removal, replacement or extension.
That silence should not be turned into a decision. An omission from an AGM update cannot establish either that Agarkar has left or that his tenure has been extended.
So, is Ajit Agarkar leaving the BCCI?
The evidence-based answer is: not confirmed.
The precise position is that BCCI appointed Agarkar to the senior men’s selection committee in 2023 and still described him as its chairperson in an official release on 6 June 2026. The BCCI’s 18 September AGM update does not resolve what happened after that.
There is also an important distinction in the wording. The official documents refer to a specific selection-committee position, not to a general role called an Ajit Agarkar tenure at the BCCI. Until the BCCI publishes a clear decision about that committee role, calling his departure a confirmed exit goes beyond the official record.