Tamil Nadu Cricket Association requests Supreme Court to dissolve CoA

NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) has petitioned the Supreme Court to dissolve the SC-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) for ‘having acted contrary to the mandate of the orders passed by this Hon’ble Court’.
TNCA has requested the apex court to form a committee of former BCCI presidents and office-bearers to supervise the administration of the game in the country.It has also asked the top court to empower the committee to file a draft constitution in accordance with the suggestions of Justice (retd) RM Lodha committee’s report as accepted by the apex court.
The plea indicts the CoA for not having ‘incorporated all the suggestions’, as approved by the SC, of the Lodha panel in the BCCI constitution which was registered last month in Chennai. The former board officials are hoping to gain time and thereby scuttle the process by trying to weaken the CoA’s position vis-à-vis the Supreme Court. None of the former presidents is eligible to be a part of the afore-mentioned committee.
From Shashank Manohar, who is the chairman of the International Cricket Council, to Anurag Thakur, who was disqualified by the Supreme Court for not doing enough to implement the Lodha reforms, none of the former officials can become part of the committee.
"Allow the present application and issue a direction dissolving CoA for having acted contrary to the mandate of the orders passed by this Hon’ble Court; allow the present application and issue a direction appointing a committee of former presidents and office bearers of the BCCI to supervise the management; allow the present application and issue a direction to the aforementioned committee to file a draft constitution in accordance with the suggestions of Justice Lodha Committee Report,” the TNCA petition to the Supreme Court reads.
The TNCA petition has also sought clarification on the nine-year cap on tenure of cricket officials.