Elected unopposed to the top position in the world's richest cricket Board, the bespectacled 47-year-old also gave enough indications that he would run the show the way he wants and is unlikely to be influenced.
The following is the list of BCCI presidents till date:
| 1 | R E Grant Govan | (1928-1933) |
| 2 | Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan | (1933-1935) |
| 3 | Nawab Hamidullah Khan | (1935-1937) |
| 4 | Maharaja K S Digvijaysinhji | (1937-1938) |
| 5 | P Subbarayan | (1938-1946) |
| 6 | Anthony S D'Mello | (1946-1951) |
| 7 | J C Mukherji | (1951-1954) |
| 8 | Maharajkumar of Vizianagram | (1954-1956) |
| 9 | Sardar SS Majithia | (1956-1958) |
| 10 | R K Patel | (1958-1960) |
| 11 | M A Chidambaram | (1960-1963) |
| 12 | Maharaja F Gaekwad | (1963-1966) |
| 13 | Z R Irani | (1966-1969) |
| 14 | A N Ghose | (1969-1972) |
| 15 | P M Rungta | (1972-1975) |
| 16 | Ramprakash Mehra | (1975-1977) |
| 17 | M Chinnaswamy | (1977-1980) |
| 18 | S K Wankhede | (1980-1982) |
| 19 | NKP Salve | (1982-1985) |
| 20 | S Sriraman | (1985-1988) |
| 21 | B N Dutt | (1988-1990) |
| 22 | Madhavrao Scindia | (1990-1993) |
| 23 | I S Bindra | (1993-1996) |
| 24 | Raj Singh Dungarpur | (1996-1999) |
| 25 | A C Muthiah | (1999-2001) |
| 26 | Jagmohan Dalmiya | (2001-2004) |
| 27 | Ranbir Singh Mahendra | (2004-2005) |
| 28 | Sharad Pawar | (2005-2008) |
| 29 | Shashank Manohar | (2008-2011) |
| 30 | N Srinivasan | (2011-2013) |
| 31 | Jagmohan Dalmiya (Interim) | (2013-2013) |
| 32 | N Srinivasan | (2013-2014) |
| 33 | Shivlal Yadav (Interim) | (2014-2014) |
| 34 | Sunil Gavaskar (IPL Interim) | (2014-2014) |
| 35 | Jagmohan Dalmiya (Died in office) | (2015-2015) |
| 36 | Shashank Manohar (Resigned) | (2015-2016) |
| 37 | Anurag Thakur | (2016-2017) |
| 38 | C K Khanna (Interim) | (2017-2019) |
| 39 | Sourav Ganguly | (2019-Present). |