The Supreme Court invoked the retirement cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar to justify Justice R.M. Lodha Committee suggestion that BCCI's administrators should retire at 70 years of age.
"The Bharat Ratna (Tendulkar) who retired at around 40 has 30 more years to contribute to the game," Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur remarked.
The Bench, also comprising Justice F.M.I. Kalifulla, was hearing the Punjab Cricket Association's objections to the Lodha panel recommendation about the age cap for cricket bosses.
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In an earlier hearing, Chief Justice Thakur said cricket administrators, after 70 years of age, should watch cricket on TV and cheer from home rather than actively participate in them.
The debate began when Chief Justice Thakur pointed to how the committee in its report narrated its meeting with former BCCI president and late Jagmohan Dalmiya.
“He was over 70, incoherent and often unable to communicate. May be that is why they (the committee) had an impression that there should be a cap on age,” Chief Justice Thakur said.
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The Chief Justice also suggested how Mr. Tendulkar can consider taking a law degree so that he could enter legal practice after he is done with cricket.
“In legal practice, there is no upper age limit to retire,” Chief Justice Thakur pointed out.