Committee of Administrators (CoA) approves to form Indian players’ association
In line with the recommendations of Lodha committee reforms, a cricketers’ association has been approved by the Committee of Administrators (CoA). The association will have two members (one male and one female) in the Apex Council, which will be the all-powerful decision-making body.
In the Lodha recommendations, there was a clear directive to have one player representative in the Indian Premier League Governing Council and a fully-functional Players’ Association to be added in the Apex Council, which will be the all-powerful decision-making body for cricket in India. In line of that directive, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) approved the formation of the players’ body.
The Hindustan Times reported that the process of registration and putting it up in front of the Supreme Court will be carried out simultaneously and the association should be in place in a month’s time from now.
Earlier, a players’ body was a contentious issue for the BCCI to handle as it promises to give the cricketers a powerful voice to raise demands, especially when it comes to scheduling and contracts. However, BCCI was not interested in forming the body considering the fact that scheduling is a fractious topic, as India plays more cricket than any other country, and most of the sponsorship for the game around the world comes from Indian companies.
The players’ association in Australia and England have a professional staff, headed by a CEO and a legal team, which negotiate on behalf of the players and they have decided the maximum number of matches for a player in a season.
According to the conditions approved by CoA, all first-class cricketers can register with the body. The qualification for a first-class cricketer will be 15 games for men and 5 for women. Three one-day games or five Twenty20 games will be considered as one first-class game.
“In one month the entire process of registration should be over and by September, the BCCI elections should be held,” said a BCCI insider.
The Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA), which is the global body that represents the interests of professional cricketers, has long supported the idea of a players’ association in India and they have also shown their happiness after CoA approved the idea.
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