Niranjan Shah, Brijesh Patel quits from respective posts of State Associations
Internet Desk: Following the sacking of its President Anurag Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke from their office by the Supreme Court the BCCI is in no mood to take the Lodha committee recommendations lightly. The Board has decided to discontinue all the committee member names as it has removed all the committee members name from their official website www.bcci.tv. The startling feature is the senior selection committee member names which is supposed to sit in Mumbai to select the ODI team against England has been taken off from the website.
The all important team selection for the ODI series against England has been re-scheduled on 6th January at the BCCI headquarters. Sources said all the selection committee members will be present along with the Coach Anil Kumble and ODI captain MS Dhoni. The meeting is supposed to be convened by BCCI appointed CEO Rahul Johuri and will be attended by all five selectors MSK Prasad, Devang Gandhi, Sarandeep Singh, Gagan Khoda and Jatin Paranjpe.
BCCI assistant secretary Amitabh Choudhury clarified to xtratime.in about the BCCI decision. “Well as far as my knowledge goes BCCI needs to implement the Lodha committee recommendations soon and there are many members in different committees who are over seventy years and have also completed nine years in office, to right-off any confusion all names from the committees have been removed at the moment.”
In another development Niranjan Shah, veteran cricket administrator and secretary of the Saurashtra Cricket Association, on Wednesday(January 4) left his position in accordance with the Justice Lodha Committee’s recommendations. The move came following Supreme Court’s order of asking Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke to vacate their respective posts from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
As per the recommendations, an administrator should not be over the age of 70 and should not serve a term of more than three years in one go or more than nine years in total. The 72-year old has been the secretary of SCA since 1972.
“I am out (of Saurashtra cricket) post the Supreme Court order, there is nothing much to say really and there is no need to resign. The court order very clearly states the eligibility criteria.” Shah said.