Unhappy Srini to come out all guns blazing on ICC revenue-sharing model
Former Indian cricket board president N Srinivasan is expected to come out all guns blazing during Monday’s Special General Meeting (SGM) of the BCCI here.
Srinivasan, who will attend the SGM as executive member of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), is expected to make his observations on the revised ICC revenue model, which was approved a few days ago. The BCCI’s share has been cut to $405 million after the ‘Big Three’ arrangement, which was Srinivasan’s brainchild, was dismantled.
During Sunday’s meeting with theCommitteeofAdministrators (CoA), Srinivasan gave glimpses of what could be expected on Monday. “When the CoA brought up the topic of the BCCI finally agreeing to the revised ICC revenue, Srinivasan made it clear that he has a few things to say, which he will in the SGM and not in front of the CoA,” a source told HT.
The meeting between CoA and representatives from West, South and Central zones was over in 15 minutes, while the meeting with the North and East zones went on for nearly an hour.
The BCCI had authorised acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary to negotiate with the ICC on the revenue model.
Srinivasan is also likely to take the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) issue with the BCCI after outstation players were barred from participating in the T20 league.
The CoA once again tried to convince the state units to adopt the Lodha Committee report as much as possible during the SGM. The members are expected to again deliberate on the contentious issues. “We were briefed by the CoA to accept the recommendations as much as possible, and approach the Supreme Court on only one or two grounds, which are genuinely difficult to implement,” said a BCCI member.
CoA chief Vinod Rai said he had a fruitful meeting with the state units. “We have been assured that they will implement it (recommendations). If they still have any reservations, they can approach the court,” Rai said after the meeting.
During Monday’s SGM, the members will once again deliber- ate on contentious issues such as one-state-one-vote, nine-year tenure at the state and BCCI, cooling-off period and three-selector policy. The age criteria is not much of a concern now, said CoA member Diana Eduljee.
The CoA has also submitted revised rules on conflict of interest for the BCCI members to deliberate on at the SGM.
Meanwhile, Punjab Cricket Association conveyed to the CoA that they are willing to implement the Lodha report in full.Veteran member of the PCA, GS Walia said, “Nobody wants confrontation. Talking about my state, whatever the Supreme Court says we will agree, we will implement the (Lodha Committee recommendation) in toto and we have conveyed this to the CoA.”
Amongst the other matters the SGM will discuss are the conduct of cricketing activities in Rajasthan and Jammu & Kashmir, Assam Cricket Association’s request for financial help to build a stadium, and a meeting with the Pakistan Cricket Board in Dubai recently.
Although the Virat Kohli-Anil Kumble saga is not on the agenda, there are high chances of members raising questions on what actually transpired. and the win is a result of that,” said Johnston in a chat with HT after the match.
India’s desperation to score their third goal came to fore in the last four minutes of the match. Coach Roelant Oltmans withdrew goalkeeper Akash Chikte and added an extra striker but Canada defended well. Jasjit Singh and Ramandeep Singh missed their mark by a whisker and India’s lack of composure under pressure was exposed once more.
World number 13 Pakistan defeated China 3-1 to finish seventh in the eight-team Hockey World League semi-final here. The win keeps Pakistan with a good chance of qualifying for the 16-team FIH 2018 World Cup in India.
All four goals in the PakistanChina match came in the final quarter.
Veteran striker Umar Bhutta found his scoring touch with two lovely field goals in the 51st and 56th minutes.
World No. 18 China pulled one back in the 58th by Guo Xiaoping but Mohammad Irfan Junior’s 57th minute strike clinched the game for Pakistan.
Pakistan came into today’s first match as the fancied side. They had beaten China 4-0 in October last year and were under pressure to finish at least seventh here.
Bhutta’s strikes finally saw the green shirts return with a smile.