CoA members’ plan to go for World Cup creates furore among BCCI officials
Some BCCI officials are left agitated as a considerable amount of money will have to be spent on the CoA members making trips to England for the World Cup. Earlier, CoA had barred the BCCI members from making such trips as it cost them a lot of “unnecessary” money from the BCCI accounts.
There was a clear ban on the BCCI officials making foreign trips to watch the team play, and when Amitabh Choudhary had planned his trip to Sri Lanka to watch Nidahas Trophy in March 2018, CoA cancelled the plan. Choudhary wished to watch the two T20Is between India and Ireland and the first two games against England after the ICC meeting in Dublin last June.
However, the CoA had cancelled the trip by asking him to do so at his own expense. But with the World Cup approaching, CoA has changed their own policy and decided to allow their own members to make a trip to England for the World Cup.
Understandably, that has made the BCCI officials agitated that a considerable amount of money will have to be spent on the CoA members. If the data in the Times of India had to be believed, then members will be paid a daily allowance of $750 per day in addition to hotel, travel, all sundry expenses and food bills, while the Indian cricketers will be getting only £125 (in England) per day as DA.
If five officials from the board - three office-bearers and two CoA members - travel to the World Cup for a week, the BCCI would have to pay around Rs 1.25 crore from its kitty. That has created furore considering there will be no finance manager in England.