Lodha committee News

Although it didn’t find its way into the BCCI constitution, it was largely accepted that the break would provide the much-needed relief to the exhausted India players and help in workload management of the cricketers. While the 2020 IPL was rescheduled for later part of the year due to Covid-19 pandemic and players were able to get the necessary break due to no cricketing activities prior to the IPL and the quarantine in Australia post the tournament. In 2019 though, there was again just a nine-day break before the IPL.

The meeting will also address the matter of state bodies to apply the proposals of the Lodha Committee and preparation for the BCCI elections with amicus. 

The order allowed the Board’s officials to serve two successive terms instead of one before the mandatory cooling-off period. The Lodha Committee, on the other hand, had suggested only one term (of three years) before the cooling-off period.   

The re-do of the constitution of the MCA is aimed at implementing the Lodha reforms.

The Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) adopted the recommendations of the Justice RM Lodha committee at its Special General Body Meeting held here on Friday.

In a BCCI's U-19 women's One-Day Super League match, Nagaland were shot out for an incredible score of just two against Kerala with as many nine batters getting out for duck.

Commentators contracted by the BCCI, like batting legend Sunil Gavaskar, may soon be asked to stop writing columns should the board adopt Lodha Committee's recommendations on the conflict-of-interest issues.

On October 30 last year, The Supreme Court accepted major recommendations of Justice R.M. Lodha-led panel on structural reforms in the BCCI. On August 23, the apex court had instructed the CoA to prepare a draft of the new constitution as per the Lodha panel recommendations.

Following the ban imposed on them in 2015, the two teams did not play in the IPL tournaments in 2016 and 2017. Their places were taken by Rising Pune Supergiant and Gujarat Lions.

Guha who was also deputed by the Supreme Court in the Committee of Administrators to run the BCCI had made sensational claims in his letter in which he had questioned the stardom and conflict of interest by some members.

Rai said that co-operation and discussion is the way forward as that can only convince the Supreme Court about one or two reforms which does look practically unimplementable.

Srinivasan has already reached the capital and is staying at a different five-star facility instead of the one where the SGM is scheduled to be held.

The reform parameters have already been made available to the state cricket associations and other associates at district club levels.

The four-member Committee of Administrators of the BCCI in a letter to all the state associations has stated that they would proceed on a "strict understanding and interpretation" of the Lodha Committee reforms like the age cap of 70 years, and nine-year incumbent period among others.

The rejection had come in the wake of Azhar`s failure to give any proof over removal of his BCCI ban and if he was a valid voter or not.

The nine directors were Manchanda, Subhash Sharma, Vivek Gupta, Salil Seth, Siddharth Sahib Singh, Ashok Sharma, Ajay Sharma, Vinod Garg and Vikas Katyal.

Lodha committee on Thursday provided a seven-point response to queries on the administrative reforms made mandatory for BCCI.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the three member committee-former Chief Justice of India R.M. Lodha, former Justices Ashok Bhan and RV Raveendran.

Azhar applied for president's post after incumbent Arshad Ayub quit office following the Supreme Court verdict on Lodha committee reforms.

Earlier,Supreme Court after removing Anurag Thakur from the post of BCCI president, had entrusted the senior-most vice-president of the BCCI, Khanna, to run its affairs.