The Committee of Administrators (CoA), appointed by the Supreme Court, has expressed that the committee is not at all in a hurry to decide the contracts for the team’s coaching staff whether they should be extended or not. The contracts of head coach Ravi Shastri, Bowling coach Bharat Arun, Batting coach Sanjay Bangar and fielding coach R. Sridhar were discussed by the committee at a meeting on Monday but they didn’t take any decision on the extension.
“There are still more than four months remaining on the contracts on the support staff, we are in no hurry at the moment,” CoA’s newest member Lt Gen (retd) Ravi Thodge told CricketNext. “The matter will be discussed in detail in future meetings. We still have more than four months’ time to decide whether to extend the contracts or not.”
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Ravi Shastri was appointed the team’s head coach for a two-year period in July 2017 after his stint as the team director from 2014 to 2016. Arun, Bangar and Sridhar also took up their respective roles after a week of Shastri’s appointment. However, with the new IPL season is all set to begin on Saturday (March 23), the CoA have nearly two months ahead of the ICC World Cup to decide the extension of coaching staff’s contracts.
Meanwhile, there is another issue came up where the Supreme Court asked the BCCI to reconsider former India pace bowler S Sreesanth’s lifetime suspension in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing controversy and to revisit the punishment which is imposed on him. However, the newly appointed Ombudsman, Justice D K Jain will now handle the issue.
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“We have not been given any choice in the matter. The SC judgement is quite clear. We will be referring the matter to Ombudsman. The new BCCI constitution lays down everything. Although the SC order say the matter has to be revisited by the disciplinary committee, according to the new constitution that authority rests with the Ombudsman. It doesn’t mean the matter will be referred to tomorrow. We still have time and it will be done soon,” Thodge informed.
