On Thursday (17 January), the Supreme Court will take up the Cricket Association of Bihar’s (CAB) petition against the SC-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). It is expected that the BCCI officials will also open up the present differentiation issues between the two-member CoA.
While CoA is going to complete two years in power, the committee has disappointed everyone with their works. Starting as a four-member committee, it has now taken the shape of the two-member committee where Vinod Rai is serving as chief and Diana Edulji is the other member.
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Recently, Rai and Edulji have involved in constant unsolved conflicts in almost every issues and that’s hugely hampered the BCCI’s image and work ethics.
CAB’s Aditya Verma, the petitioner, recently told CricketNext, “On January 30, the CoA will complete two years in power. They have been a total failure so far. Even Justice RM Lodha has criticized the functioning of the CoA. In 2017, a four-man committee was constituted, but two of them quit for various reasons over a year back but since then no replacement has been appointed. The BCCI image is suffering as a result due to clear divisions right from the appointment from Team India’s new coach, clean-chit to BCCI CEO Rahul Johri in a sexual harassment case and now more recently how they handled the Hardik Pandya-KL Rahul episode. I intend to bring these issues to the attention of the honourable Supreme Court.”
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At present, the CoA chief Rai is taking some major decisions single-handedly. Ponting that matter, Verma revealed his plea which is to re-create the CoA as a four-member committee or appoint a separate committee of reputed former India cricketers for at least some days.
Verma added, “When the CoA was created, Rai was just one of the four votes. As chairman, Rai never had the deciding vote nor does he now. Rai is single-handedly running BCCI and my plea is that CoA should be made a four-member committee again or appoint a separate committee of reputed former India cricketers, who can oversee BCCI till new management takes over. This is one of the three applications.”
Verma has created a total of three petitions against CoA. While the first petition is about the present divisions in CoA, the other two are – ii) Rahul Johri’s continuing CEO post despite the sexual allegations while the investigation process was questionable and iii) Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) should treat like Uttarakhand and Rajasthan by creating the ad-hoc committee to resolve the situation in a legal way.
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Recently, on 11 January, around 26 BCCI members met in Mumbai, where they decided to bring out present differentiation issues between the two-member CoA.
They said according to CricketNext, “The members expressed shock at the manner in which decision making was happening in the CoA where the decisions and views of one member were being ignored and the decisions of the other were being executed irregularly despite there being a deadlock in decision making on such decisions. The members were concerned about the resources of the BCCI being wrongfully expended on such irregular decisions being taken.
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“The members expressed shock at the double standards on display in dealing with issues related to players where show cause notices have been issued and the players have been suspended pending enquiry and in dealing with issues relating to the CEO who was not even suspended and in whose case the enquiry procedure adopted was arbitrary and in violation of the BCCI’s constitution and in the absence of any decision from the CoA as a committee.”
