Former national team captain Tamim Iqbal secured the highest number of votes to become a director of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Sunday.
It has placed him as the frontrunner to be elected the board's next president later on Sunday night.
Tamim, who also headed the ad-hoc committee responsible for organizing the election, secured 73 out of 76 possible votes in Category-2 (Dhaka clubs).
Sixteen candidates contested the 12 available director posts in this category. The four candidates who lost the club-category race are Major Imroz Ahmed, Faiyazur Rahman, Amjad Hossain, and Syed Borhanul Hossain.
The majority of the board’s leadership took office without a contest, as seven out of ten regional director posts in Category-1 were decided uncontested. Voting took place only in the Barisal and Khulna divisions.
In Barisal, Fortune Barishal BPL team owner Mizanur Rahman defeated Muntasir Alam to claim the lone director seat. In the Khulna division, where three candidates vied for two spots, Shafiqul Alam and Shantanu Islam won.
Sirajuddin Mohammad Alamgir had already secured his position uncontested in Category-3, which represents universities and various institutions.
Following the confirmation of all 23 elected directors, the newly formed panel will cast their votes on Sunday night to elect the next BCB president, a position Tamim is expected to assume.
The newly elected BCB director panel features representatives across three distinct categories. In Category-1, which covers regional divisions and districts, Sayeed Bin Zaman and SM Abdullah Al Fuad won seats for Dhaka, while Minhajul Abedin and Moin Uddin Chowdhury secured leadership for Chittagong.
Shafiqul Alam and Shantanu Islam claimed the two available spots for Khulna, alongside individual division representatives Mir Shakrul Alam for Rajshahi, Mirza Faisol Amin for Rangpur, Abdul Kaiyum Chowdhury for Sylhet, and Mizanur Rahman for Barisal.
The highly competitive Category-2, representing the Dhaka clubs, saw twelve directors take office: Tamim Iqbal, Masuduzzaman, Fahim Sinha, Asif Rabbani, Yasir Mohammad Faisal Ashik, Mirza Yasir Abbas, Israfil Khosru, Rafiqul Islam, Sarkar Mahbub Ahmed Shamim, Shanian Tanim, Saheed Ibrahim Ahmed, and Sakif Ahmed.
Completing the board's new leadership structure, Sirajuddin Mohammad Alamgir secured his position as the sole representative for Category-3, which governs universities and institutional bodies.