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BCCI, states treading cautiously after SC verdict
- Updated: July 19, 2016
An embattled BCCI is set to convene a meeting of its legal committee next week to discuss the Supreme Court’s verdict that made it binding upon the board to implement the majority of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations within six months. Officials of the board and state associations, which are required to carry out the recommendations concurrently with the BCCI, said the judgment was on expected lines.
“Nothing unexpected, nothing unusual. This was on the cards only,” a BCCI official well versed in legal matters told ESPNcricinfo. He conceded the board had no wriggle room, and effectively ruled out the option of reviewing the verdict. “There is nothing to debate on it. You simply have to just adopt it. That’s what Supreme Court has asked us to do.
“There is no scope for analysis. What are we going to gain [by reviewing the order]? The Lodha Committee has done everything, so we just have to put in place what it has laid down.”
The official, however, said it would be difficult for state associations to implement the recommendations within the time frame. “The BCCI will do it, …
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