Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer in the panel © Getty Images
IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla will head a BCCI-appointed seven-member committee that will identify the “few critical points” in the implementation of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations.
Sourav Ganguly, president of Cricket Association of Bengal, is the only cricketer in the panel. Amitabh Choudhary, the board’s acting secretary, has been appointed the convener of the committee that also has vice-president TC Mathew and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry, Nabha Bhattacharjee, the secretary of the Meghalaya Cricket Association and co-convener of North East Cricket Development Committee and Jay Shah, the joint-secretary of the Gujarat Cricket Association.
With the Supreme Court hearing set for July 14, the committee has been asked to convene a meeting soon and submit a written report by July 10. The board’s general body will then convene a Special General Meeting to deliberate on the proposals and approve them.
The major recommendations that the committee will be dealing with are ‘one-state, one-vote’, an age cap of 70-years for officials, a cooling-off period of three years after every three-year term, and identifying a fix on number of selectors for the senior national team.
Choudhary said after the BCCI’s SGM on Monday that the committee “will go into each and every action point necessitated by the principal judgment.” The committee’s proposals will then be presented to the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators, tasked with running the board until fresh elections under the Lodha guidelines are held. The CoA will “thereafter decide the course of action.” No CoA representative, however, is part of this new BCCI committee.
While the move to establish such a committee could delay the implementation of the Lodha recommendations, Choudhary said it was done with a view to “examine how best and quickly to implement” them. The committee is expected to commence work in two days.
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