CoA, BCCI hit common ground

The Committee of Administrators (CoA) and the BCCI had shared a turbulent relationship since the time the Supreme Court formed the three-member panel to look after the affairs of the world's richest cricket board earlier this year. But with the passage of time, the two bodies seem to have hit a common ground.

"I think we were always on the same page. There could be some differences. CoA had been helicoptered into it for the last three months. Rest of the BCCI office bearers had been in the business for a long time. So, obviously there are going to be difference of opinion on both parts based on perspective. We discussed and debated issues," said CoA head Vinod Rai when asked about the issues they discussed with the state units during their meeting on Saturday.

"We sincerely felt that the states were not sensitised with the entire perspective of the issues. We have written a long letter to the ICC, it was an eleven-page letter which explains the entire gamut of issues on which we had concerns with the ICC revenue and governance model. The states had received those letters because we shared it with them.”

On the matter of a sticky issue like one-state-one-vote, the CoA seems to have noted down the objections of the BCCI members. "All the states raised this issue because on one hand, it’s very good for the north eastern states to get into the BCCI administration, but there are some historical factors also involved. We discussed it and saw how we take it forward," said Rai.