Several disqualified office-bearers and members of the BCCI following the Supreme Court order of January 2, 2017 and members who have not complied with the Justice Lodha reforms have expressed their anguish at the Committee of Administrators (CoA) calling the shots on all matters — cricketing, financial and day to day affairs — of the BCCI when the BCCI rules and regulations state that all the processes must go through the office-bearers and committees.
A large number — including the disqualified former BCCI and TNCA president N. Srinivasan and his acolyte Niranjan Shah of the Saurashtra Cricket Association — met in New Delhi on Saturday and connected with many over phone, including Sourav Ganguly, who is the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal.
The meeting found fault with the CoA on many issues, but by remaining silent, appeared to have concurred with the committee’s decision on player contract and compensation, to create a fund of ₹125 crore and the decision to allow Virat Kohli to skip Afghanistan’s inaugural Test in order to play county cricket ahead of India’s tour of England.
The former and present BCCI administrators pointed out anomalies in the bid price for the BCCI media rights and criticised taking away the powers of the office-bearers, but the group did not invite the acting-secretary Amitabh Choudhary for the meeting.
The CoA believes that the office-bearers have overstayed their term of office and has cut them to size. The CoA has conveyed to the BCCI officials that they cannot convene any meeting without its express consent and they cannot travel on what is perceived as official duty, without due permission.
