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Thakur denies seeking ICC intervention
- Updated: October 17, 2016
BCCI president Anurag Thakur has denied that he sought a letter from the ICC stating that adoption of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations was “tantamount” to government interference in the working of the board.
While passing an interim order on October 7, the Supreme Court had asked Thakur to file a “personal affidavit” to clarify whether he had asked for ICC’s interventions, as revealed by ICC chief executive David Richardson to an Indian news channel.
“At the outset it is denied that any such request was put forth by me to the CEO of the ICC,” Thakur said in the affidavit, submitted to the Supreme Court on Monday by BCCI’s legal counsel Kapil Sibal. Incidentally, Richardson had never said Thakur had asked him for the letter. Thakur, Richardson had said, had “verbally” asked for a letter and ICC chairman Shashank Manohar turned down the request saying the BCCI needed to put it down in writing first.
Thakur pointed out in his affidavit that during an ICC governance review committee meeting, called on August 6 and 7 in Dubai, he had checked with Manohar whether he had objected to the appointment of a nominee of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office, a government organisation, on the proposed Apex Council. The Apex Council and a seat for the CAG official were both part of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations, which were approved by the …
