One simple e-mail. No press conference.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India invited all the big cricket bosses from across the country to discuss their next move regarding the recommendations of the Lodha Committee report. They sat behind the closed doors of their headquarters in Mumbai for about four hours and came up with this.
This, being nothing.
This, being that they had simply appointed one man to take their plea back to the Supreme Court, in hopes of a middle way.
This, being nothing. For now.
Board Secretary Anurag Thakur is the man in-charge now who will take the BCCI’s appeal to the Apex Court to point out the “anomalies and difficulties” in implementing the Justice Lodha Committee recommendations.
BCCI Separates Self From State Bodies
The one update we are getting from Mumbai is that the BCCI has told the state associations that they can file separate affidavits with the Supreme Court on the difficulties they will face to implement the recommendations. This, after the Mumbai Cricket Association and the DDCA outright rejected all the points of the Lodha report.
PTI reports that the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) have already decided to move court. “We will be filing an affidavit in Supreme Court,” SCA President Niranjan Shah confirmed.
Contentious Recommendations
To start with, the Justice Lodha Committee, appointed by the Supreme Court, recommended in their report in January 2016 that there be a limit on the tenure of the Board’s office-bearers, prescription to limit their age to 70 years, one state-one vote (set to directly affect the associations within the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat) and barring of ministers and government officials from becoming office-bearers. (Here are some of the recommendations and how they would have impacted the many bosses of the board)
Niranjan Shah’s Saurashtra Association will be impacted by two of these suggestions.. They will lose their voting right if they in fact accept make “one-state-one-association” a rule. Also, Niranjan Shah himself will have to cede his post, considering he is over 70 years of age.
The BCCI’s next deadline is March 3- the date given to them by the Supreme Court to implement the Lodha Committee recommendations.
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