NEW DELHI: The Committee of Administrators (CoA) will take charge of the daily management of the BCCI with the board’s chief executive officer, Rahul Johri, going on leave. Johri, who was named last week in an anonymous allegation of sexual harassment as part of the #MeToo movement, had been asked by the CoA for an explanation and ESPNcricinfo understands he has taken leave to prepare it. Johri – who has not yet publicly reacted – has not visited his office at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai since the allegation surfaced. The CoA had also “exempted” him, at his request, from attending the ICC’s chief executive committee meetings later this week in Singapore. “It is on an unknown Twitter handle and it pertains to a period much before he [Johri] joined BCCI.

Source: Pakistan Today October 16, 2018 12:22 UTC