Published: Jul 30, 2016, 09:29 PM (IST)
Edited: Jul 30, 2016, 09:30 PM (IST)
Mumbai: The Indian Cricket Board has convened an emergent working committee meeting here on August 2 ahead of its special AGM on August 5 in New Delhi. “A working committee meeting has been convened in Mumbai on August 2 to discuss the Supreme Court verdict on Justice Lodha Committee’s reforms in the Board. It will also discuss the two match T20 series between India and West Indies proposed to be held in Florida, USA after the conclusion of the current tour of West Indies by the Indian team,” BCCI sources said today. ALSO READ: Thakur: Lodha recommendations will take cricket 20 years back
Asked whether everything has been finalised about the short T20 series, the sources said, “more or less”. The notice for the meeting (to the working committee members) has gone today, it was learnt. Earlier, former chief justice Rajendra Mal Lodha, who headed the panel for bringing reforms in the Board of Control for Cricket in India‘s (BCCI) administration, on Saturday welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict of accepting the committee’s recommendations. In a landmark judgment on July 18, the apex court gave BCCI six months time to implement the recommendations.
The two-judge bench, comprising of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice Ibrahim Kalifullah accepted the recommendation of ‘one state, one vote’, besides the induction of representatives of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the board. The apex court, however, left in to Parliament to decide whether the board should come under the ambit of RTI or not. The panel will oversee transition from the old to the new regime within the next six months.
