The Indian cricket board’s preparations for the IPL 2020 can continue unabated for now. As Sourav Ganguly and Jay Shah, the president and secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), respectively, extended for two weeks after a Supreme Court bench on Wednesday agreed to hear the plea filed by the board.
The bench always meant to hear BCCI’s plea on Wednesday, which has now been tabled twice – first in December 2019 and then again in April. The board had proposed several amendments to the board’s constitution, including the most contentious one about the ‘cooling-off’ period, which affected Ganguly’s stint. The former Indian captain’s cooling-off period scheduled to have started after July 27 while Shah’s period in the sidelines has already started from May.
Cricket associations of Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh have filed a petition on this matter
The advocates appearing for cricket associations of Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh told the bench that they have filed applications in the matter and they should be listed for hearing.
Seeking reconsideration of the apex court’s 2016 directive, the CAG has given suggestions in the application “to ensure better redressal of concerns of the court and also to ensure more effective implementation of the recommendations of Justice Lodha committee.”