The Supreme Court has not responded to the three Status Reports submitted to it by the Committee of Administrators (CoA), much of it on a number of items related to Justice Lodha Committee’s reforms in cricket report; and this has largely impeded the CoA from making any significant headway in the matter of implementing the Lodha panel’s recommendations that were accepted by the Supreme Court on July 18, 2016.
In fact, in the third Status Report, the CoA had asked the apex court to give directions on the application of the age cap of 70, the relevance of the two sets of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and link it to the reforms in cricket report and posted by the Lodha Committee on its website, and also if the disqualified BCCI and State office-bearers (by the SC order of January 2, 2017) can attend general body meetings as “representatives/nominees of the State Associations.”
The Supreme Court has stated that it will look all these matters only in mid-July.
CoA-BCCI meeting
In spite of these “disappointing developments”, the CoA has convened a meeting here on Friday to deliberate on matters, legal and the tendering process related to the IPL media rights from season eleven.
The CoA has also invited the BCCI office-bearers at 10.30 a.m. at a venue near the international airport and it looks as though only the BCCI joint secretary Amitabh Choudhary, already in the City, will be able to attend the meeting and discuss ICC issues with the Supreme Court-appointed administrators.
The BCCI is happy with the 11-page response that Limaye gave to the ICC on the proposed changes to its Constitution and Revenue model (for 2016-23). A large portion of the Limaye report was read at the SGM in New Delhi on Tuesday and as a member said: “Everybody was pleased with it.”
The BCCI’s full-members have decided to take a particular line of action with regard to ICC matters and its representative Amitabh has the onerous task of convincing the world body to “give India its due” because the ICC earns 70%-plus of its annual revenue from India.
Amitabh is scheduled to leave for Dubai on Friday evening and he knows he has to probably get an additional $150 million more to the $290 million allocated by the ICC’s Special Working Group.
He will get an opportunity to hear out from the CoA on what could be a reasonable demand.
