BCCI to hold SGM today

A Special General Meeting of the BCCI will be held today amid indication that a majority of its state association are in favour of partial adoption of Lodha Committee reforms in a bid to end the impasse.

The meeting is significant considering Supreme Court will be hearing BCCI's plea on some of the recommendations which the board has termed as "unimplementable" on April 18.

Despite the Supreme Court barring disqualified officials like N Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah, some of their confidantes may threaten to once again play spoilsport although they may just be very small in number. The BCCI brass is happy that the Supreme Court is ready to hear some of the reforms that they have always found practically difficult to implement.

The SC will be hearing the arguments on 'One State One Vote' and pruning of the national selection committee which the BCCI has always termed as unimplementable.

It is learnt that a lot of members are in favour that the general body shows enough intent by adopting the reforms partially which would also send a positive signal to the Committee of Administrators (COA) as well as the apex court.

"Supreme Court has given us new hope when they stated that they will hear some of the contentious issues once again. So, when the Supreme Court hears the case on August 18, at least they are aware that we have adopted a majority of the reforms," a state unit member from west zone, who cannot be officially quoted, told PTI.