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- Updated: September 25, 2016
Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev have joined the list of prominent commentators fielded by the BCCI to challenge some recommendations made by the Lodha panel. While Dev expressed concern about the wisdom of the “one state, one vote” system, Gavaskar said that the blueprint already existed in the BCCI’s structure for the state associations to follow with regard to their office bearers.
The observations made by Gavaskar and Dev follow comments from another former Indian captain, Ravi Shastri, who expressed his concerns over some of the Lodha recommendations a couple of days ago. All three are engaged as commentators in the ongoing series between India and New Zealand, and made their observations in interviews with fellow commentator and former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar.
While welcoming the age-cap of 60 years for selectors, Dev asserted that implementing the one state, one vote recommendation would dismantle a long established structure in the administration of Indian cricket.
At present, the state associations of Maharashtra, Mumbai and Vidarbha – each functioning independently in the state of Maharashtra – and Gujarat, Baroda and Saurashtra – each functioning independently in the state of Gujarat – have one vote each in the BCCI elections. The Lodha Committee proposed that the six votes be reduced to two, …
