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Comply with orders for any future in cricket administration, Supreme Court states

SC clarified on Friday that someone holding a post for a period of nine years cannot be disqualified from holding a post in BCCI and vice-versa.

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The Supreme Court on Friday shut doors for the erstwhile grunting officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) by clarifying on nine-plus-nine year tenure clause once for all.

The ousted officials my feel they got something out of nothing by getting a bonus of an extra nine years, but in reality the SC has told them to go and comply with the July 18 ruling first in order to have any further say in cricket administration.

SC clarified on Friday that someone holding a post for a period of nine years cannot be disqualified from holding a post in BCCI and vice-versa. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said that "doubts are created" with regard to the eligibility of an office-bearer in BCCI after the January 20 order in which it was said that a person can be disqualified from BCCI or state associations if he has held the post for nine years.

The clarification came after Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi alleged that the Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (COA) had claimed that the orders on this issue was not "clear".

In nutshell, if an office bearer has completed nine years in any post in the BCCI, he shall stand disqualified to become an office-bearer of the BCCI. Similarly, if a person holds the post of office-bearer in any capacity in any state association for nine years, he shall stand disqualified for contesting or holding any post or office of the state association, the bench also comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and AM Khanwilkar said.

However, the earlier clause of serving cooling off period of three years after every stint --- in state associations or BCCI --- still stands and thus makes most of the serving officials ineligible to contest next elections.

HPCA gets money

The SC further directed the COA and BCCI to release Rs 2.5 crores to the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) for conducting the final Test in here starting on Saturday.

It came after HPCA told the Court that COA, headed by Vinod Rai, was not releasing funds for the match as per existing contract.

COA had reasoned that the HPCA had huge sums of money – amounting to Rs 90 crores – in their coffers.

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