Not looking for escape route but right to deliberate: Thakur

February 05, 2016 05:04 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 02:36 am IST - New Delhi

BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur along with chief selector Sandeep Patil addressing the media after a selection committee meeting to pick the Indian squad for T20 World Cup and Asia Cup tournaments, in New Delhi on Friday.

BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur along with chief selector Sandeep Patil addressing the media after a selection committee meeting to pick the Indian squad for T20 World Cup and Asia Cup tournaments, in New Delhi on Friday.

Responding to > SC's advice to "fall in line" , BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur today said that the Board is “not looking for an escape route” from the Lodha committee recommendations on reforms.

“The BCCI is not looking for an escape route. We believe in transparency and accountability. In the last nine months, we have done things which would indicate that we are in the right direction. The Lodha committee has recommended many things but every member has right to look into the recommendations,” Mr. Thakur said in a press conference after a selection committee meeting to pick the Indian squad for T20 World Cup, today.

However, when asked about the >logic and plausibility of some of the recommendations , his reply was: “I will reserve my comments on that.”

But it was clear that the top brass of BCCI is not entirely happy with the recommendations.

“In 1983, when India won the World Cup, we did not have any money to pay our champion team. But now it is different. It is not that everything that has happened in the last 30-40 years in the BCCI has been all wrong,” Mr. Thakur said.

He also said the BCCI’s legal team has been looking into the matter and there will be deliberations on the findings on February 7. In fact, a Special General Meeting of state associations will be summoned in the third week of February and after that a collective viewpoint will be given by the parent body.

On allegations that they have been slow on the implementation part, Mr. Thakur replied in the negative.

“You need to understand that the > Lodha Panel Recommendation is not a one page report. It is a detailed report which will have a lot of consequences on the functioning of the board. If the Committee (Lodha) has taken 12 months, we are taking just two months to deliberate and discuss. Many states are yet to have their association’s SGM wherein, they will give their viewpoints,” he said.

Thakur, also took a >dig at BCCI ex-president N. Srinivasan under whose chairmanship the spot-fixing scandal broke.

“We are paying the price for the mistakes made in the earlier era. What happened was loss of face and credibility. Lack of decision-making during that regime also hurt the image of the board. But in the last nine months, we have tried to restore the image of the board. Everyone knows that who caused damage and who restored the image,” he said

He also informed that his own association Himachal Pradesh CA will have a meeting to discuss the Lodha Panel recommendations tomorrow.

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