Mumbai, Nov 10: The apex cricket body BCCI had unveiled a slew of reforms, including the appointment of a retired judge as its ombudsman, as part of its promised clean-up operation.
The Board decided to trim some of its sub- committees, dropped Indian Team Director Ravi Shastri from the IPL Governing Council and axed Roger Binny from the selection panel to negate the perceived conflict of interest.
The decisions were taken at the Board’s 86th Annual General Meeting in which former captain Sourav Ganguly was appointed Chairman of the Technical Committee, replacing Anil Kumble.
Besides, Visakhapatnam, Ranchi, Indore, Pune, Dharamsala
and Rajkot were accorded the status of Test venues while Cuttack’s Barabati stadium was dropped in the wake of unruly crowd behaviour during India – South Africa T-20 game recently.
Justice (Retd) A P Shah was named the ombudsman who will now deal with any complaints of conflict of interest.
Gagan Khoda and MSK Prasad were named the new members in
the selection committee, replacing Rajinder Singh Hans and
Binny.
Besides, the BCCI decided to retain Rajeev Shukla as the Chairman of the IPL Governing Council, which would comprise
Jyotiraditya Scindia, M P Pandove, Ajay Shirke and Ganguly.
The clean-up operation has been triggered by the 2013 IPL
spot-fixing scandal, which was investigated by the Supreme
Court-appointed R M Lodha committee.
