Lodha Committee offers clarification over BCCI’s NZ series-cancellation claim

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The Lodha Committee has clarified that it has not asked for the BCCI’s accounts to be frozen, but only for two specific payments from the board to its state associations to be stopped. Payments required for other routine affairs – such as organising cricket matches – can go on as they earlier did, the Committee said.

It issued the clarification on Tuesday morning, following reports in newspapers a day after India won the second Test against New Zealand that quoted a BCCI official saying the board would have to cancel the remainder of the series because its bank accounts had been frozen by a directive from the Lodha Committee.

New Zealand Cricket, however, had not received any communication from the BCCI regarding the cancellation of the remaining fixtures, and the team was said to be preparing for the third Test in Indore as planned. They are scheduled to travel from Kolkata to Indore on Wednesday.

The communication sent via email by the Lodha Committee to two …

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