SC to hear BCCI's plea to remove Vinod Rai on age ground
Supreme Court has finally agreed to listen to the Board of Control for Cricket in Indiaās plea, according to which Vinod Rai should be removed as the head of Committee of Administrators as he has turned 70. Rai has been waiting for SC decision to ascertain if he can continue any further.
The SC would be having possibly one of the last few hearings in the matter involving the BCCI on Thursday and Vinod Rai, who turned 70 last month, has been besieged by questions from members of the BCCI who claim āit's unethical for him to continueā. The Board members found their voice on the matter concerning Rai's age, because of one of the Lodha Committee's recommendations that put an age-cap of 70 years on all office-bearers of the BCCI. Speaking with TOI soon after he turned 70, Rai said he would wait for the court's directions on the matter.
Meanwhile, Rai said that CoA didn't have any idea related to Champions Trophy being converted from a 50-over tournament to World T20. Ahead of and post the recent Special General Meeting (SGM) of the BCCI on June 24 in New Delhi, Vinod Rai, the SC-appointed head for the Committee of Administrators (CoA), told TOI, āWe did not have any idea of the Champions Trophy being converted from a 50-over tournament to a World T20 until we learnt about
In addition to this, Rai said, "The Hon. Secretary (of BCCI) was nominated to attend all ICC Board meetings but he did not keep the CoA informed at all."
In reply to what Rai said, BCCI secretary Amitabh Choudhary told TOI, "As far as the ICC matter on Champions Trophy format is concerned, all proposals on tournaments and formats are
The CEC meeting of the ICC was attended by BCCI CEO Rahul Johri. In an email written by ICC chief executive David Richardson and addressed to Johri, the former says, "The possibility of changing the 2021 Champions Trophy to a men's WT20 has been discussed in the last few F&CA and Board meetings in the context of generating additional revenues for the 2015-23 (financial) cycle".
Johri has marked these emails to members of the CoA on March 20. The ICC's official press statement on the matter came on April 26.
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