Shastri urges dialogue between BCCI, Lodha Committee

Ravi Shastri, the former India captain who served as the team director between 2014 and 2016, has said that the Lodha Committee should continue having a “dialogue” with the BCCI. Shastri also suggested that the committee should not “push” the board into a corner over the implementation of reforms as that could prove to be “detrimental” to Indian cricket in the long run.

“If you try and push it immediately it might just be detrimental at this moment of time,” Shastri told his former India team-mate and co-commentator Sanjay Manjrekar during an interaction that was part of India’s 500th Test celebrations. “There are certain areas where I thought you can still have a dialogue with the Lodha Committee because those are things, if applied, it could take the game back. It could be detrimental.”

Since the release of the Lodha Committee’s report in January this year, the BCCI has been stoutly defending its position that some of the recommendations would damage Indian cricket on the field as well as financially. However, the Supreme Court on July 18 upheld the committee’s report, making it mandatory for the BCCI to implement most of the recommendations. The committee has set two deadlines for BCCI and state associations – September 30 and December 30 – to implement the recommendations, failing which the board and its state units could be held in contempt of court.

Shastri said that he did not agree with the recommendations of a three-year cooling-off period for administrators, an age cap of 70 years for officials, and trimming of the national selection panel from five to three members. Incidentally, the BCCI had also declared its reservations on the cooling-off period and age-cap …

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