BCCI acting secretary thinks CoA unnecessarily interfering in routine matters
BCCI's Acting Secretary Amitabh Choudary has responded to Vinod Rai’s mail and questioned the CoA’s decision over day-night Tests and their new recruitment. He also gave clarification regarding CoA's allegations of not considering the body clock of players.
It is clearly evident that all is not well between the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) and the BCCI (Board of Control of Cricket in India). In recent times, CoA’s working relationship with BCCI office-bearers has deteriorated to such an extent there is no trust between the two parties.
BCCI’s Acting Secretary Amitabh Choudhary believes that the Vinod Rai-led CoA have been unnecessarily interfering in routine matters instead of concentrating on the implementations of the Lodha Committee recommendations.
Things started to heat up when CoA Chairman Rai wrote to BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary questioning the attempt to host a day-night Test against West Indies in October. And then things became worse when Choudhary was asked to give consent to a new appointment decided by the CoA (according to reports). Choudhary also questioned CoA’s new recruitment and the procedure they followed.
“Initially, I had considered but desisted from responding to your comments on the day-night Test match issue respecting your position. However, the instant matter where an appointment contract is sent for my authentication even though I have once again not been any part of the decision-making process on the appointment and the same having been done without even the concurrence of the office-bearers if not the general body, surprises me, more so when the said appointment is proposed on a post which was not only hitherto non-existent but is also not one of the positions recommended by the Justice Lodha Committee,” the acting secretary quoted in Hindustan Times.
According to DNA, CoA has appointed Priya Gupta as General Manager (Marketing) at an annual salary of Rs 1.65 crore and has asked her to join before the start of the Indian Premier League. According to reports, the selected person was not even a part of the initial list of candidates.
Responding to CoA allegations of not considering the body clock of players, he pointed out the calendar of the Indian team in which they play white ball cricket under lights to dismiss concerns of the impact such a move would have on the players’ body clock.
“With the cumulative ODI/T20I/IPL figures of only five top players such as MS Dhoni — 566 (318/89/159), Virat Kohli — 414 (208/57/149), Rohit Sharma — 413 (180/74/159), Shikhar Dhawan — 260 (102/31/127) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar — 202 (86/26/90) mounting to a mammoth 1,855 matches, an overwhelming majority of which were night matches, the issue of body clocks of players is adequately addressed,” he further said.
In reply to Rai’s question of day-night Tests, the acting secretary further reminded that India and Bangladesh were the only Test-playing nations that haven’t played day-night Tests. He tried to explain that he was just trying to take a step forward.
“I was actually only trying to take a step forward in executing a policy decision which had been unanimously taken at the BCCI Working Committee meeting held on 24th June 2016. (In the meeting) day-night matches with the pink ball were introduced for the first time in Duleep Trophy with the express and stated
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