{"id":643686,"date":"2017-09-19T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T05:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/?p=643686"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T05:13:56","slug":"mca-set-precedence-by-appointing-a-woman-as-senior-office-bearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/mca-set-precedence-by-appointing-a-woman-as-senior-office-bearer-643686\/","title":{"rendered":"MCA set precedence by appointing a woman as senior office-bearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_643689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-643689\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-643689\" alt=\"Abhay Apte has been appointed as the President of MCA \u00a9 Getty Images (Representational Image)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cricket-ball-and-ball-representational.jpg\" width=\"628\" height=\"355\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-643689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abhay Apte has been appointed as the President of MCA \u00a9 Getty Images (Representational Image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The idea of allowing women participating in managerial positions is catching up. Cricket to lately has seen shift its focus on women\u2019s game. In a unprecedented move, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/tag\/mumbai-cricket-association\" target=\"_blank\">Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA)<\/a> on Monday set history by appointing a woman, Priyanka Thorave, as its treasurer. This is the first time that a woman will attain a post of a senior office-bearer of a state cricket association or even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/tag\/bcci\" target=\"_blank\">BCCI<\/a>. The state associations seem to have been impressed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/tag\/CoA\" target=\"_blank\">Committee of Administrators (CoA)<\/a> that asked them to appoint one or two women representatives in the governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Abhay Apte was announced as the President, while Priyanka was selected as the treasurer.\u00a0 The previous treasurer, Vikas Katakar, had quit on health grounds. Priyanka received backing from President Apte.<\/p>\n<p>On being appointed as the treasurer, Apte spoke to <i>The Times of India<\/i> and said, \u201cThis is perhaps the first time in the history of BCCI that a woman office-bearer has been elected. Priyanka represents one of the founder clubs, the Club of Maharashtra, here and her appointment was unanimous in the general body of MCA. Everyone supported her candidature and she rightly deserves to be in cricket administration.\u201d Apart from her President, Priyanka herself was elated, \u201cI am overwhelmed by the support of the MCA members. I hope to give it my best shot and hopefully I can prove my worth in the association. I am looking forward to working for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Priyanka has been associated with cricket administration for four years. She is a management professional who has worked for multinational e-retail company. \u201cI played cricket during my childhood days but now I follow the game passionately,\u201d Priyanka added.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was pressure on Apte to take over the presidency role as there was no responsible candidate to handle the upcoming India and New Zealand series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priyanka has been associated with cricket administration for four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[127,5567,26390,2761],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MCA set precedence by appointing a woman as senior office-bearer - Cricket Country<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/mca-set-precedence-by-appointing-a-woman-as-senior-office-bearer-643686\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MCA set precedence by appointing a woman as senior office-bearer - 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