Why have Committee if higher authorities can simply overrule decisions, BCCI questions ICC

“Once the Cricket Committee has decided something which is related to cricket, the next level (of) committees — Chief Executives’ Committee and the Board — have to approve that. When you are going against the recommendation of your own Cricket Committee, why do you have the Committee? When we are spending for them (support staff), then you can’t take a call (based) on some teams that may not require or may not afford (a bigger contingent of support staff),” a top BCCI official told The Indian Express.

“It was done clearly to hit countries like India, England and Australia that send specialist support staff because we feel they need to accompany the team given the competitive nature of cricket today,” the official said.

Meanwhile, it is understood that Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy — the Indian Cricketers’ Association’s (ICA) representatives to the apex council — will place their demands during the meeting in Mumbai on Saturday. Gaekwad will ask for a pension for all retired first-class cricketers, a one-time benefit for the players who played between 1950 and 1975 and medical insurance and pension for the widows of the former first-class cricketers. Rangaswamy will highlight the wage disparity between male and female cricketers.