Will create CAC after having absolute clarity, reveals Sourav Ganguly

One of the major causes of concern to operate and manage BCCI has been to tackle the issue of “Conflict of Interest”, which according to Lodha Committee recommendations, was a major point of contention. The practical problems of implementing it saw many former cricketers, including Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev, and many others, being a regular visitor to the office of BCCI ethics officer Retd. Justice DK Jain. 

Speaking on the issue, Ganguly explained, "We will form the CAC, we met the Honourable (Ethics Officer) DK Jain yesterday over the conflict of interest issue. So we needed to get proper clarity from him on what is conflict and what is not conflict. Because we don't want to appoint someone and then he gets cancelled like it has happened with us, the past two times and Kapil Dev and his team," Ganguly said after BCCI's first AGM since the Lodha reforms.

"CAC doesn't have much work. We keep talking about CAC, but the job of CAC is the appointment of selectors and coach. So, once you appoint a selection committee, it stays for four years and once you appoint a coach, it stays for three years. So, where is the need of having a full-time CAC? So far it (CAC) has been honorary, so even if you pay, you pay on what basis? There is no regular work, that's why to have CAC as (with) conflict of interest, I don't know whether it is the best thing," Ganguly added.

Not only the CAC, but every sector, in which former players need to be appointed, also has come under intense scrutiny, which makes things difficult for the development of Indian cricket. Ganguly believes that conflict should only be for the administrators and not for the players who want to give back to Indian cricket.

"The conflict law stops everyone. A to Z it stops. It has got former cricketers also, former administrators also. That's why we can't make the CAC, that's why we can't make proper selectors. Like me, I can't do anything. It has to be practical. Conflict should be only for someone like us, who are administrators. Doesn't stop. We're going back to the court for all these clarifications. Some of these are...I don't know where it'll finish."