Rai gets first hand feel as administrator
PUNE: Along with Australia’s opening batsmen, a special visitor also took guard at the MCA Stadium.The personality in question was none other than Vinod Rai, who as the the chairman of the Committee of Administrators, entrusted with the job of overseeing the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s operations by the Supreme Court, is the most powerful personality in Indian cricket at the moment.
He has been part of couple of meetings of the CoA but for the first time he was being seen at a cricket stadium after taking over as the chief of cricket in India. Rai was taken around the venue by former BCCI secretary and Maharashtra Cricket Association President Ajay Shirke.
“Mr Rai had come to watch the match and had a round of the stadium, we didn’t have any other discussion. He liked the stadium and said it is a very good facility,” said Shrike, who was seen explaining the various facilities at the venue along with the BCCI CEO Rahul Johri and other MCA officials.
“He wants to get a firsthand experience of the stadiums,” remarked a BCCI insider. “He will be visiting all the venues during the series.”
Rai’s team is proving to be tough taskmasters, going exactly by the book. One by one they are trying to implement the Lodha Committee’s recommendations and it is learnt, the CoA has issued another set of instructions to the state associations.