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The Supreme Court on Monday (January 30) appointed Vinod Rai as the head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Rai, a former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), will be heading a four-member panel that will consist of noted historian and writer Ramachandra Guha, former women's cricket team captain Diana Edulji and Vikram Limaye, who is the managing director and CEO of IDFC limited. The court also rejected the Centre's request to appoint the sports ministry's secretary as one of the members of the panel.
Edulji is the only former cricketer on the panel, having played 20 Tests and 34 One-Day Internationals for India. The Supreme Court also appointed Amitabh Chaudhary, Anirudh Chaudhary and Limaye as BCCI's representatives for the upcoming ICC meetings. The newly appointed committee will take charge with immediate effect and will serve on an interim basis until the next BCCI elections are held. Meanwhile, the board's CEO, Rahul Johri, will be looking after the daily administration.
The administrators were expected to be named on January 24, but Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi requested the court to not nominate administrators for the BCCI for another two weeks, given that the central government was thinking about bringing in a sports code.
Thereafter, the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra asked the BCCI to submit suggestions on administrators in a sealed envelope by January 27. The bench also allowed the Indian cricket board to suggest three names after following the due process to represent it at the ICC meeting due in the first week of February.
Names of nine administrators were submitted by Anil Divan and Gopal Subramaniam, the amicus curiae, in a sealed envelope to the Supreme Court. However, the bench, which also includes Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud had asked for a review of the names and stated that nine people as administrators will be too many. It was also made clear that names suggested by amicus curiae above 70 years of age will not be considered for the administrators' post.
The Lodha committee was initially formed in 2015 following the spot-fixing scandal in the 2013 Indian Premier League. With the board failing to implement the majority of the Lodha recommendations, Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke were removed as the president and the secretary respectively.
SC appoints Vinod Rai to head BCCI - Cricbuzz
Edulji is the only former cricketer on the panel, having played 20 Tests and 34 One-Day Internationals for India. The Supreme Court also appointed Amitabh Chaudhary, Anirudh Chaudhary and Limaye as BCCI's representatives for the upcoming ICC meetings. The newly appointed committee will take charge with immediate effect and will serve on an interim basis until the next BCCI elections are held. Meanwhile, the board's CEO, Rahul Johri, will be looking after the daily administration.
The administrators were expected to be named on January 24, but Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi requested the court to not nominate administrators for the BCCI for another two weeks, given that the central government was thinking about bringing in a sports code.
Thereafter, the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra asked the BCCI to submit suggestions on administrators in a sealed envelope by January 27. The bench also allowed the Indian cricket board to suggest three names after following the due process to represent it at the ICC meeting due in the first week of February.
Names of nine administrators were submitted by Anil Divan and Gopal Subramaniam, the amicus curiae, in a sealed envelope to the Supreme Court. However, the bench, which also includes Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud had asked for a review of the names and stated that nine people as administrators will be too many. It was also made clear that names suggested by amicus curiae above 70 years of age will not be considered for the administrators' post.
The Lodha committee was initially formed in 2015 following the spot-fixing scandal in the 2013 Indian Premier League. With the board failing to implement the majority of the Lodha recommendations, Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke were removed as the president and the secretary respectively.
SC appoints Vinod Rai to head BCCI - Cricbuzz
