Administrators named to run BCCI affairs

new delhi — new delhi — India’s top court on Monday appointed four administrators to run the business operations of Indian cricket’s ruling body and carry out reforms to its set-up.

The Supreme Court decision came less than a month after it removed two of the country’s most powerful cricket administrators, Board of Control for Cricket in India President Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke, for failing to introduce reforms as recommended by a retired judge in the wake of a scandal in the Indian Premier League tournament. Vinod Rai, a top retired government auditor, will head a four-member committee of administrators, said Aditya Verma, a petitioner in the case. Other members are Indian historian and cricket writer Ramchandra Guha, Vikram Limaye of the Infrastructure Development Finance Company and former Indian woman cricket captain Diana Edulji.

The court rejected the federal government’s plea to appoint the Sports Ministry Secretary as one of the administrators. Former chief justice RM Lodha was appointed by the court in early 2015 to head up a committee to reform the running of Indian cricket following the IPL corruption scandal. —