For the first time in 35 years, the BCCI will be marked “absent” at the Annual General Meeting of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) to be held in Lahore on Nov. 17.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) which is the host, was looking forward to the BCCI’s presence at the AGM, especially with Ehsan Mani, elected PCB chairman on Sept. 4, set to be officially declared as the ACC president.
The BCCI’s acting-secretary, Amitabh Choudhary, who is on the ICC Board as director is on the ACC Executive Board and the BCCI CEO Rahul Johri is an invitee to the ACC Board. Both will not be in Lahore.
ACC sources told The Hindu that the Committee of Administrators (CoA) has communicated to the acting-secretary that it’s not in favour of the BCCI attending the the ACC AGM citing the “current political climate” between India and Pakistan.
It was in September 1983 that the cricket boards of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Singapore met in New Delhi and formed the Asian Cricket Conference.
It was changed to Council in 1993.
