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[caption id="attachment_4171" align="alignnone" width="533"] Cricket Association of Bengal President Sourav Ganguly . File Pic.[/caption] Kolkata: Much like the other state associations the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) is also not too keen to take any decisions before the July 14 Supreme Court hearing of the Justice Lodha recommendations. The association on Saturday decided to postpone its Annual General Meeting (AGM), following an emergent meeting if the members at the Eden Gardens. It is normally a trend for the association to hold its AGM at the end of July, but last year also it had to be postponed due to the same reason after the Supreme Court judgment on the Lodha reforms was passed on July 18, 2016 At an emergent meeting involving 75-80 of its 121 affiliated units, president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly apprised all of the prevailing situation regarding some of the Lodha reforms like  'one state, one vote', age and tenure cap for administrators', cooling off periods between successive terms and the size of the senior national selection committee which some of the state associations have objected to. "The president apprised the members that due to the pending issues before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, where the Supreme Court has directed the matters to be heard of July 14, the association cannot hold any AGM," CAB legal advisor Ushanath Banerjee told reporters after the half an hour long meeting here. "The association has been advised legally also that in the present scenario, until and unless the amendments directed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court are affected, which are in doubt on numbers of counts as some issues are stil awaiting a call, holding of AGM would be wrongful and illegal," Banerjee said. BCCI has formed a seven-member committee to oversee the recommendations of Lodha reforms. The committee is headed by IPL Governing Council chairman Rajiv Shukla. It also has Sourav Ganguly, Naba Bhattacharjee, TC Mathew, Jay Shah, Amitabh Choudhary and Anirudh Chaudhary. Former Saurashtra Cricket Association secretary Niranan Shah was also included in the committee as a special invitee. The committee, tasked to identify the ‘few critical points’ for the general body of the cricket board to consider before they are submitted to the Supreme Court, met on Saturday. It was learnt from sources in the know that the Supreme Court's stance has "softened" a bit and the issues which has caused a flutter among state associations would be considered.