The Committee of Administrators (CoA) has brushed off the proposal from the officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to depute an exclusive liaison officer for the wives (wags) of the touring Indian cricketers.

The decision was taken at the meeting at Cricket Centre in Mumbai on January 3.

the BCCI’s logistics in-charge, Mayank Parikh confronted CoA but they told the BCCI officials that there was no need for another officer when there is one, Rishikesh Upadhyaya, already traveling with the team. Parikh was supposed to leave Mumbai for Cape Town on January 4.

The CoA decision may have unwittingly brought to the fore differences between administrators and BCCI management but board officials said that is not true.

Apart from Anushka Sharma, Ritika, Nupur, Nikita, Radhika and Romi, the wives respectively of Rohit Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Murali Vijay, Ajinkya Rahane and Wriddhiman Saha among others are here. They all have been permitted to stay with their spouses for two weeks. The allowed time will conclude after the ongoing Newlands Test.

It is still not clarified that the initiative of the BCCI management or a request from the team management as Indian manager Sunil Subramaniam, did not respond to a question from this paper.

If CoA had given the green signal to the proposal,  the logistics manager would have been at beck and call of the wags, whose travel program, internal travel, and site-seeing… all would have been taken care of by him.

For instance, the wife of X may not certainly be interested to be at the ground for the whole day and may want to leave after her husband’s batting. Accordingly, the arrangements would have had to be made for her coming in and going out.