BCCI units asked to comply with new rules by Sept 20

The Committee of Administrators, entrusted by the Supreme Court to implement the new constitution of the BCCI, has asked all members to comply with the new rules by September 20. The CoA has drafted a compliance certificate and asked units to sign off on it. On Tuesday, the BCCI

CEO Rahul Johri registered the Board’s new constitution with the Registrar of Societies of Tamil Nadu at Chennai. Once the members comply with the new rule book, the process of elections will begin. However, Bihar’s membership status remains in disarray. Brouhaha over former cricketer and current politician Navjot Singh Sidhu hugging Pakistan’s army chief at Imran Khan’s swearing in ceremony as Prime Minister is not just manufactured and funny, it is quite frankly senseless.

The rancorous coverage that has followed shows immense silliness in sections of the media (and even more, social media) about foreign affairs and human interaction.

But I’ll desist from debating the Sidhu-Bajwa ‘hug’ further. What interests me, and is germane to these sports pages, is the possibility of bilateral cricket ties between India and Pakistan being restored.

There seems to be a clear signal from Imran Khan about this. It is not incidental that among the handful of guests invited from India for his oath-taking ceremony were cricketers Sidhu, Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev. This will not have been lost on anybody, least of all in his own country.

Apart from his former Pakistan teammates, I can’t recall seeing, or reading about, any other cricketer being present: Not Sir Viv Richards, Sir Ian Botham, Ian Chappell, Arjuna Ranatunga, to name a few of

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