Are you going to lose 100s of crores of Rupees?, asks BCCI on Lodha recommendations
Under pressure to implement the Lodha recommendations verbatim, the BCCI has resisted it saying that they would stand to lose hundreds of crores if they do so. BCCI chief Anurag Thakur has also stuck to the BCCI's reluctance to use the DRS despite Virat Kohli calling for its implementation earlier.
The BCCI have found themselves in a punching contest with the Lodha committee backed by the Supreme Court at the other end of the ring for months. Despite their reluctance and dogged resistance, the Supreme Court has asked the Board to “fall in line or we will make you fall in line”. However, the Special General Meeting of the BCCI over the weekend continued the stance with the Board "unanimously" adopting "important recommendations" but choosing to leave out the key and controversial ones.
The Board appears intent on sticking to its stance and speaking at Sportstar's 'India 500 Tests' book launch, the BCCI President gave a hint of things to come when he defended the opposition to the reforms. “If you look at the overall IPL calendar then IPL would not be possible that way. Are you going to lose 100s of crores of Rupees?," BCCI President Thakur said regarding the Committee's proposal to ensure a 15-day gap between the national calendar and the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Pointing that the Board will incur losses amounting crores, he said, "The money is paid to the past cricketers. More than Rs 110 crores have been distributed to past cricketers. If you wind up the IPL because of the International calendars, Indian cricket is going to lose. You have to decide overall. 15 days window is not possible as of today if you have both IPL and the Test calendar to go on," reported PTI.
Continuing the BCCI's long-standing opposition to the Decision Review System (DRS), Thakur said that they would adopt the system after assessing it once again. “We will again look at the performance of the DRS. If it’s satisfactory, BCCI is open to use the DRS. We are 13 hosting 13 Tests at home this season, then why not? It all depends on the feedback and the outcome of the latest trials on DRS,” Thakur told media.
“In the digital age of 21st century, there’s nothing which is stopping us
However, he also reiterated the BCCI's stance of demanding that the DRS become a 100% foolproof system before they can agree to it.
“If umpires are getting 95-97 percent of the decisions and the same the with DRS then what’s the change? So the only issue is if not 100 per cent then how better we can do than the field umpires.
“BCCI is open to the DRS. But is the technology 100 percent foolproof? There were shortcomings. We have told the cricket committee in ICC too look into the DRS and the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was supposed to give a report,” Thakur said.
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