Sunday’s Working Committee meeting of the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) will decide the date for its much-delayed annual general meeting (AGM).
The Supreme Court had directed the Board to hold the AGM on or before March 5.
The ‘informal’ meetings in Chennai on Saturday were essentially a show of strength for N. Srinivasan, who continues to enjoy strong support in the Board. Mr. Srinivasan emerged from one of the meetings smiling but declined to talk to the media.
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India Cements’ latest moves vis-à-vis the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have shown that Mr. Srinivasan is inclined to contest for the top job.
If Mr. Srinivasan does not do so — this will depend on a few clarifications he is expected to seek from the Supreme Court — Shivlal Yadav is his preferred candidate.
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A source in the BCCI told The Hindu , “On Sunday, the sole agenda before the Working Committee is to fix a date for the AGM. There will be no nominations for the election of the president. That can be done a day before the AGM.”
The apex court had asked Mr. Srinivasan to choose between a position in the Board and the CSK that is owned by India Cements. Mr. Srinivasan is the managing director of India Cements.
All six members from the East Zone, sources said, were now supporting Mr. Srinivasan. It is the East Zone’s turn to nominate the name for the president. During the day, Board members from Delhi, Jharkhand, Baroda, Haryana, Hyderabad, Odisha, Karnataka, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and Punjab arrived.
Former president Jagmohan Dalmiya will be representing Bengal.
The 24-member Working Committee comprises five permanent Test centres (Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Mumbai, Bengal and Uttar Pradesh), five centres that have held Tests in the last two years (Punjab, Gujarat, Vidarbha, Hyderabad and Karnataka), a member from each of the five zones, the Board president, the secretary, the joint secretary, the treasurer and the five vice-presidents.