Vinod Rai to lead panel to run BCCI

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday appointed a four-member committee headed by former CAG Vinod Rai to administer the day-to-day affairs of the BCCI after the removal of its president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke for non-implementation of Lodha panel reforms.

Other members are Ramachandra Guha, historian, Vikram Limaye, MD and CEO of IDFC Ltd, and Diana Edulji, former Indian women cricket team captain, to oversee the BCCI till it falls in line with Lodha panel recommendations.

A bench of Justices Dipak Misra, A.M. Kanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud passed this order taking note of the names submitted by amicus curiae Gopal Subramanian and Anil Divan and on behalf of the state cricket associations by senior counsel Kapil Sibal. The court said the CEO of BCCI shall henceforth report to the newly- formed committee.

The bench also appointed Mr Limaye, BCCI joint secretary Amitabh Choudhury and its treasurer Anirudh Chowdhury to represent the BCCI at the ICC meeting in the first week of February. Mr Subramanian and counsel Gopal Sankaranarayan, for the Lodha panel, complained that none of the recommendations were implemented by the BCCI. This was strongly refuted by senior counsel Arvind P. Datar for BCCI as he asserted that most of them had been complied with.

The court said the committee’s first job is to ascertain which of the orders of Lodha panel has been implemented and which are the suggestions not complied with and file a status report in four weeks.