JOIN US The Supreme Court-appointed committee of administrators (CoA) has warned the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) from taking any “drastic step/measure” during its Special General Body Meeting (SGM) on May 7, which could jeopardise negotiations with the International Cricket Cricket Council.
CoA asserted that while they trusted the BCCI would take “a mature and well-considered decision at the SGM which protects the interests of Indian cricket as a whole,” they would not pull themselves back from intervening in a contradictory scenario.
“In the extremely unlikely event that the decision of the Members of BCCI at the SGM is one which, in our view, is against the interests of Indian cricket, we would be duty-bound to bring such decision to the attention of the Hon’ble Supreme Court, communicate our views to the Hon’ble Supreme Court and seek its intervention in the matter as also to take such other steps that we consider necessary to protect the interests of Indian cricket,” it said.
“It is in the interests of Indian cricket for the BCCI to continue negotiations with the ICC and other cricket boards to arrive at an amount/ share that is somewhere between that envisaged under the financial model that was put in place in 2014 and that which is envisaged under the revised financial model,” CoA wrote in e-mail to state associations on Wednesday.
“It is not in the interests of Indian cricket for the BCCI to take any drastic step/ measure which may result in breakdown of negotiations between the BCCI, ICC and other cricket boards, especially since there is sufficient time between now and the ICC Conference to be held in June 2017 for a negotiated outcome to be arrived at.”
The CoA in the letter also mentioned they had communicated their apprehension regarding the lack of flexibility to the acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary before he went for the ICC meeting in Dubai, and felt the solution was between the Big Three Model and the new model.
"The decision regarding what amount/share and changes to the ICC governance structure the BCCI should finally agree to in the course of negotiations with the ICC and other cricket boards is certainly one that needs to be taken by the General Body of the BCCI as it has long-term implications," the CoA said.
"It is extremely unlikely that the ICC and other cricket boards will agree to the amount/ share envisaged under the financial model that was put in place in 2014. The ICC and other cricket boards will certainly agree to an amount/share that is higher than what is envisaged under the revised financial model."