CoA undoing its good work of past three years, says Diana Edulji
Former Indian cricketer and member of the CoA Diana Edulji has expressed her unhappiness towards the administration of the CoA. She spoke about the lack of transparency on the way the CoA works and the increasing number of complaints that are received from different state cricket associations.
Diana Edulji believes that with the lack of transparency in the decisions taken by the panel, it is undoing all the good work done in the past three years. She also touched on the importance of transparency in administrating so many state cricket associations.
“I’m not happy at all. We are not very open or transparent,” Eduji told The Indian Express.
“We are seen as favouring certain states and (biased against) certain other states. That is not the idea of CoA. We have done all the hard work in the last three years. Why are we spoiling it in the end? We are not being fair. I said in one of my mails that Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion," she further added.
Eduji further commented on the fact that the Manipur Cricket Association was banned due to the presence of an MLA but DDCA was given a clean chit despite having MLAs.
“We received many complaints against Baroda, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh that they have violated qualification norms. If you are non-compliant and have not registered the constitution as per the requirements, CoA is justified in taking action," she said.
“There are complaints against MPCA (Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association) that there are people holding three posts. These things should have been brought before the electoral officer way before, not now. These states who are now changing constitutions and submitting them late should be debarred; else every other association should be given more time to change,” she added.
Eduji further believes that being a minority has a huge disadvantage in making administrative decisions and that decisions should be taken by seeing the merit of the decision-maker and not whether if he/she is a minority.
"People have different views and we must be able to accept certain views of the minority also. When we were 1-1, the other opinion was taken and now it’s always 2-1. I am very clear that a level playing field should be there for all states,” she boldly claimed.
Touching on the point of Dravid's case of conflict of interest, she did not hesitate to say that he was 'misguided'.
“I think he was misguided by the management. I made it very clear that whosoever comes in should be cleared by the ethics officer. You can give a timeline to the ethics officer in case of emergency,” she signed off.
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