The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), at its working committee meeting here on Friday, decided to postpone its AGM to November 20.
The AGM will be held in the city.
The BCCI also announced that Ravi Shastri would continue as Director of the team although he would assume a “hands on” role only from the tri-series down under and the ICC ODI World Cup 2015.
Shastri, busy with media commitments, will guide the side more as a consultant during the home series against the West Indies and the four-Test series in Australia.
Coach Duncan Fletcher holds on to his job till the premier ODI tournament. Bharat Arun and Sanjay Bangar (assistant coaches) and R. Sridhar (fielding coach) retain their respective roles (the news was broken in The Hindu).
“The BCCI is very happy with the performance of the new support staff,” said secretary Sanjay Patel.
Can finish contracts
Former bowling and fielding coaches, Joe Dawes and Trevor Penney, who were asked to “go on leave” after the Test series in England, have been informed they could finish the remaining part of their contracts — till the completion of the World Cup — at the National Cricket Academy (NCA).
The meeting was attended by N. Srinivasan as a representative of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) since the working committee wanted to felicitate him on becoming the first chairman of the International Cricket Council.
The Supreme Court had said Srinivasan could not discharge his duties as BCCI president till the Justice Mudgal panel submitted its findings on corruption in the IPL (the report will be submitted in November first week), but he is understood to have taken legal opinion.
“He was not there as the president of the Board and did not chair the meeting. He was only there as a member of the TNCA, a State association, to receive our felicitations for his achievement in the ICC,” said Patel.
Audited statement of accounts approved
During the meeting, the committee approved the audited annual statement of accounts for the year till March 31, 2014.
The panel decided only those below the age of 23 as on September 1, 2014, would be eligible for selection in the ‘A’ team of each State association (this is not to be confused with the India ‘A’ side).
A BCCI team will also visit flood ravaged Jammu & Kashmir and assist the State in the resumption of the game there. It is also understood that J & K cricketers would be given facilities in Mohali for pre-season practice.