Sunday was not different as the Tamil Nadu strong man once again reached the BCCI headquarters at 10.45 am to attend the meeting of various state associations with Vinod Rai and company
The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (COA) has found a convenient way by saying "it was not their mandate to decide the eligibility or ineligibility of the people attending the Board meetings" to ignore the presence of former BCCI president N Srinivasan.
Sunday was not different as the Tamil Nadu strong man once again reached the BCCI headquarters at 10.45 am to attend the meeting of various state associations with Vinod Rai and company. If insiders are to be believed, then Srinivasan had a friendly spat with COA chief Vinod Rai on the issue of 'wrong handling of ICC money matter'.
"This is not just a matter of losing money, but India has lost face there in ICC," was how he told Rai. Srinivasan, though, refused to go into the details by saying: "This meeting has not been called to discuss ICC issue" Let us discuss all this on more appropriate forum."
He left only after 12.30 pm and chose to ignore media personnel there. He was not the only one to defy the SC orders. Saurashtra cricket ruler for over four decades, Niranjan Shah also attended the meeting along with Srinivasan.
COA met state officials in batches, two in the morning and two later. It has been learnt that issue of Maharashtra and Gujarat, which have multiple associations and separate teams playing domestic cricket, was discussed. The matter of reverting back to five-member selection panel was also on the agenda.
The Anil Kumble and Virat Kohli matter also came up for discussion but it was decided to go into the specifics after Monday's Special General Meeting.
The COA has told states to discuss the implementation of SC reforms at large in the SGM on Monday and bring the areas of their concern before it so that the same can be taken before the court during the next hearing.
"COA feels that sitting on the proposals will not help either side. And, it is important to move in the direction of implementation and discuss it in SGM. But all states informally discussed and reached consensus that they will rather wait for July 14 orders than to give anything in writing," said a representative.
One-state-one-vote and cooling-off period are two contentious issues on which all states have approached the SC for relief. "The COA wants states to give their side of problems in writing without any assurance. We will rather wait for July 14 than exhausting ourselves here," the representative said.. It was a hint that the SGM would be another waste of time!
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