Sundar Raman, chief operating officer of the Indian Premier League, resigned from his post on Tuesday. Raman was under investigation for his role in the spot-fixing and corruption scandal that hit the IPL in 2013. The Press Trust of India reported that newly re-appointed president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Shashank Manohar had asked Raman to put in his papers. Manohar had criticised the board’s decision to retain Raman even after the spot-fixing allegations surfaced.

Raman, a media planning executive, was appointed to the IPL after making a presentation that impressed former league president Lalit Modi in 2008. He was at the helm of the IPL when the spot-fixing allegations surfaced in 2013. The board accepted his resignation on Tuesday. There has been much talk of cleaning up Indian cricket administration since Manohar took over the BCCI reins on October 5. On Monday, The Indian Express reported that the BCCI on November 9 is likely to vote in favour of Manohar taking over the chairman of the International Cricket Council, replacing N Srinivasan, whose son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan is embroiled in the fixing scandal.