BCCI misinterpreted committee’s email – Lodha

RM Lodha, the chairman of the Lodha Committee, has said the BCCI has “misinterpreted” the committee’s email to two banks on Monday, asking them to not disburse funds from the board’s account to its state associations regarding two specific transactions.

“This is a misinterpretation or misconstruing of the email that was sent to the BCCI yesterday,” Lodha told ANI on Tuesday. “We have not frozen any of the accounts … routine expenses for matches, cricket activities and administrative matters are not restrained.”

An unnamed BCCI official had been quoted by Indian media as saying that the board was considering cancelling the remainder of the ongoing home series against New Zealand. His reasoning was that with the accounts frozen it was impossible for the board to function.

“Really unfortunate that all BCCI accounts have been frozen, there can’t be any tournament without money,” Thakur was later quoted as saying by Indian Express. “Cricket cannot run without money. We don’t take money from the government. We are not allowed to make payments. I can’t say anything about the India – New Zealand series. Team India is number one today, when we are financing state boards, questions are being raised.”

Lodha said that interpretation of the committee’s directive was inaccurate. “It is so clear,” he said …

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