Going by the record, neither Amitabh Chaudhary nor Anirudh Chaudhary have been sent to any ICC negotiations
Going by what is cooking inside the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is almost certain that joint secretary Amitabh Chaudhary and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary are in the race to represent India at the International Cricket Council (ICC) meeting in Dubai to be held in the first week of February.
The first such signal came on Jan. 26 at Kanpur when Amitabh was introduced as BCCI's honourable joint secretary by commentator and former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar during the presentation ceremony after the India vs England T20I.
This introduction went against the Supreme Court order as Amitabh is not eligible to take any post in the board because of his 14-year long run as chief of Jharkhand Cricket Association.
The Supreme Court, in its Jan. 21 orders had clarified that as per the norms set by the Justice Lodha Commission, "A person shall cease to be an office-bearer of the BCCI if he has been an office-bearer of any state association for nine years". And BCCI's counsel Arvind Dattar also assured the court on Jan. 24 that the BCCI had implemented almost all the reforms put forth by the Lodha panel.
SC also ruled that "BCCI CEO Rahul Johri will continue to discharge all duties till a new panel of administrators are appointed on the next date on Jan. 30".
All along in the case, BCCI has been trying to wriggle out of the fix by talking about "how conflict of interest is allowed in International Hockey Federation to misleading on internal audit report".
In one such attempt on Jan. 24, senior counsel Kapil Sibal — though he is representing three state cricket associations — batted for BCCI and pleaded that "Board needs to send someone senior representative from within the Board who has experience of dealing with various other ICC country members in the past".
He said this while making a point that "BCCI stands to lose about Rs 3,000 crore if it is not represented by a senior experienced hand during the ICC meet".
Going by the record, neither Amitabh nor Anirudh have been sent to any ICC negotiations. They have not been allowed by BCCI top officials to attend the low key meeting also.
Dattar claimed, "It would be difficult for CEO Johri to go there in Dubai and deal on behalf of India as other countries would also be represented by their top office-bearer".
He probably had no clue that Johri had attended the ICC's CEC meeting at Edinburgh in June as an observer as Ajay Shirke was the official representative at the ICC annual conference. In Cape Town in October again, Johri represented the BCCI at the CEC meeting after Shirke expressed inability to travel.
And if this is not enough, he should know that BCCI is the only Test playing member (full member) to send its secretary to the ICC CEC meeting. All other nine full members send their CEOs to the ICC CEC meeting.
The Chaudharys are camping in a Mumbai's five star hotel in their attempt to take charge of BCCI headquarters. The old guard of BCCI probably wants the restoration of the N Srinivasan model of "Big Three" and proportionate distribution of the ICC spoils. Who will fight for that on their behalf is the million-dollar question.
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