The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA), which will meet in New Delhi on Friday (March 17), have so far dealt with many matters that are of routine nature and also of much significance related to the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the tenth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The CoA also had an occasion to meet the Indian team at the annual awards function at Bengaluru on March 8, discuss central contracts matters with head coach Anil Kumble and also interact with support-staff members like Sanjay Bangar and R. Sridhar.
But the four-member committee is, perhaps, groping in the dark and trying to find a way out to address the enforcement of the Supreme Court order of July 18, 2016, that gave the go ahead for the implementation of the Justice Lodha panel report on reforms in cricket.
Clearly, the full members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) are in no mood to budge from their original stand and ignored the timelines set by the Justice Lodha committee.
No headway can be made until the 31 full members adopt the Lodha Committee written Memorandum of Association and Rules and Regulations.
Cut to the present, the CoA is expected to discuss the way forward for the implementation of the Lodha panel recommendations, IPL and ICC matters and other issues during the day-long meeting.
It’s now believed that the CoA would like Vikram Limaye to be nominated for the ICC Board meeting in Dubai on April 26 and 27.
The CoA meeting has been scheduled three days before the Supreme Court takes up a few petitions filed by the BCCI full members on Monday, March 20.
