Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar bat for BCCI against Lodha committee recommendations

The 1983 World Cup-winning skipper said, “I could not understand that Maharashtra can have only one vote. How can a place like Mumbai, which has done so much for cricket, vote only after three years? Yes, change is required, but I think the cricketing work should be done by cricketers and administrative work should be done by administrators,” reported Cricbuzz.

Presently, Maharashtra state has three associations i.e. Maharashtra, Mumbai, and Vidarbha. Gujarat also has three associations - Gujarat, Baroda, and Saurashtra. If the 'one state, one vote' rule is implemented then the rotation policy will allow each of these associations to vote only once in three years.

Opposing this recommendation, Gavaskar said, “What is the pinnacle in an administrator's career? It is becoming the president. You don't just become the president in three years. You are the president of the board because you serve some terms such as vice-president. Once you come to that level, once you have finished that term, you then don't come back as the representative of your state association because how are the new ideas going to come?”