BCCI has chose to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court to point out the “anomalies and difficulties” in implementing the recommendations of the Lodha Committee.
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All eyes will thus be on the BCCI president, who has recently taken a bold step to scrap the controversial dominance of “Big Three” – India, Australia and England – in International Cricket Council (ICC).
A Supreme Court bench had, on February 4, given the BCCI until March 3 to explain what it planned to do about the Lodha recommendations, stressing that the board should “fall in line and follow the suggestions to save the trouble”.
It was also chose to grant full-member status to Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh and as a result the number of Ranji teams goes up to 28.
Among the recommendations are limitation of tenure for 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.
“Further the members additionally authorised the President and Hony”.
The Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee had earlier in their report recommended the legalisation of betting in Indian cricket.
“If you have any difficulty in implementing it, we will have the Lodha Committee implement it for you”, Justice Thakur had told the BCCI counsel.
“We have been sent to BCCI from our respective states because we’re part of those associations”.
The Working Committee also chose to authorize BCCI president Shashank Manohar and Thakur to appoint an agency to search for candidates for the posts of CEO and CFO for the cricket board. Secretary to discuss the governance and financial restructuring of the ICC subject to such restructuring being incorporated in the constitution of the ICC for permanency.
The Lodha committee also suggested the appointment of three authorities with distinct roles namely ombudsman, ethics officer and electoral officer. He added in an interview to The Hindu, “I don’t agree with the revenue-sharing formula because it’s nice to say that India will get 22% of the total revenue of the ICC, but you can not make the poor poorer and the rich richer, only because you have the clout”.
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BCCI also aims to rework the its future tours programme (FTP) for the period 2016 to 2023 in order to “ensure equitable distribution of the matches”.
