NEW DELHI: After shooting barbs at the Lodha Committee reforms over the last few days, arguing that the BCCI had been “diminished” as a result of the Supreme Court’s interventions, former board president Anurag Thakur Friday delivered a shot that had sufficient substance to warrant a serious hearing.
Thakur pointed to the capitulation of Nagaland in a U-19 women’s One-Day Super League match, where the team was shot out for an incredible score of just two against Kerala, with as many nine batters getting out for duck.
Thakur pointed out that the Lodha Committee’s recommendation of one state one vote that resulted in 41-time Ranji champions Mumbai losing its voting rights while all North Eastern states got voting rights was fundamentally flawed.
Thakur suggested that instead of voting rights these states need infrastructure and game development.
“Giving full voting rights to each state w/out structured development of cricketing standards will harm the game. Cricket in northeast needs nurturing not humiliation like this. #LodhaReforms @BCCI,” Thakur, who also lost BCCI Presidency due to reforms, tweeted.
Indian cricket’s one-time power centre Mumbai lost its permanent voting status as per the new BCCI constitution finalised by the Committee of Administrators (CoA).
All the North Eastern states including Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim were been granted full membership and voting rights.
