The clashes between the BCCI’s top officials and the Committee of Administrators (COA) started once again when the allocation of complimentary passes for the third T20I between Indian and Sri Lanka T20 International in Mumbai.

As per the BCCI rulebook, the president can get up to 50 complimentary passes, including hospitality tickets, the secretary has 75 and the treasurer gets seven passes for matches.

The issue was created when COA’s letter written a couple of months back “requesting” acting president CK Khanna and acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary to part with 25 complimentary passes each for the stakeholders during every international match.

All the stakeholders, from various sponsors to official broadcasters, have been allocated their share of complimentary passes for the Mumbai T20I. However, a section of the BCCI is asking “who are these unnamed stakeholders” for whom passes are being allocated by the COA.

These BCCI officials were unhappy with the fact that acting president Khanna had collected his 50 passes for the Mumbai T20I without parting with his share of 25 passes that he was ordered to give back for the “unnamed stakeholders”.

However, MCA, on its part, informed that it can’t block premium tickets and reprint them at such a short notice. Talking about the same, one of the senior officials said, “If the rulebook is strictly followed, Khanna can’t be faulted for collecting his entire share of passes. The COA letter specifically says ‘request’ and any office-bearer is well within his rights to decline such a request.”

This is where a section of BCCI officials are asking questions claiming that COA is trying to target some of the office-bearers to part with a share of their passes. The official also said, “If every stakeholders’ share is specified then why are the office-bearers being told to part with their share of passes? All we want to know is that who are these stakeholders. Their names are not minuted and the General Body is not aware of them.”