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Lodha committee recommendations will leave many in BCCI jobless

The only thing to remember is the manner in which the Justice RM Lodha-led three-member committee has made all these esteemed cricket officials "jobless" in a single master stroke on Monday.

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Forget how our esteemed politicians tore off the new sports Bill during a Union cabinet meeting in 2011.

Forget also how our esteemed cricket administrators across the country, for many decades, have been 'protecting' the gentleman's game by protecting their own interests, refusing to retire.

The only thing to remember is the manner in which the Justice RM Lodha-led three-member committee has made all these esteemed cricket officials "jobless" in a single master stroke on Monday.

And, all the top BCCI officials, including president Shashank Manohar, secretary Anurag Thakur, treasurer Aniruddh Chaudhary and joint secretary Amitabh Chaudhary are going to be the worst-affected when the committee's recommendations are implemented.

The Supreme Court-appointed committee's 159-page recommendations are likely to be implemented in toto after the Apex Court takes up the matter later.

In the given scenario, Manohar will not be eligible to contest another election to the top post as he is serving his second tenure as BCCI president.

With the Vidharba Cricket Association, which, in all probability, will become an associate member without voting rights under the 'one state, one vote' recommendation, Manohar would go down in cricket history as the last elected official from Vidharba region.

The case of secretary Thakur is even more interesting. For one, he will have to relinquish his president's post in Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association, which he has been occupying since July 2000.

Secondly, he will have to serve the cooling-off period of three years after relinquishing his secretaryship in the 2017 AGM.

In simple words, Thakur has become ineligible to hold any post in HPCA as he has already been president there for more than 15 years and will sit out of BCCI affairs for at least three years after his present term expires.

The same is the case with the IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla, who, too, will also become ineligible to be Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association's secretary, a post he has been holding on to continuously since 2005.
With the Lodha committee limiting the age of BCCI officials to 70 years, many veterans of the BCCI, including Saurashtra Cricket Association chief Niranjan Shah (71 years), automatically face exit from all administrative jobs.

Coupled with the recommendations of 'one state one vote' plan, dna has learnt that more than two-thirds of the state units affiliated to BCCI will have to find new administrators in the coming days.

Out of the seven voting units from North Zone, none will have present administrators. Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association's new president Iqbal Raza Ansari is also a state minister and can't keep his post as JKCA president.

With All India universities and Services set to become non-voting members, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal will have no option but to replace key administrators.

It is another matter that HPCA chief Thakur will hold on to the power by putting his proxy (read his younger brother Arun Thakur) to the top post.
 

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