Olympics, audit report, domestic pay reform part of CoA’s agenda

NEWDELHI: The BCCI’s stand with regard to participation in the 2024 Paris Olympics, audit firm Deloitte’s presentation on financial irregularities and revision of pay structure in domestic cricket are on COA’s agenda when they meet top office-bearers.

With chances of Paris edition having cricket as one of the disciplines, the BCCI will have to take a call in this regard even as it has not been very keen on becoming a part of the quadrennial extravaganza. There are at least nine issues that the COA will discuss with the BCCI and the most anticipated among them is the proposal of pay hike for domestic cricketers across all age- groups.

The domestic pay structure has not undergone revision for since 2007. The players get Rs 10,000 per day for a first- class match apart from a lumpsum amount that they get from broadcast rights at the end of the season. The COA will also take note of the Deloitte presentation related to audit report that it has prepared. The ‘Conflict of Interest’ issue will also be discussed. It must be mentioned in this regard that BCCI has kept ‘Conflict of Interest’ in its list of difficulties pertaining to implementation of Lodha Panel reforms.

Another aspect will be the list of commentators. It will be interesting to note if Harsha Bhogle makes a comeback in the list after being dumped by the BCCI following an allegedly critical on-air comment about the performance of some star India players.