BCCI SGM adjourned; Srinivasan, Shah attend meeting

The BCCI office-bearers were reportedly keen that N Srinivasan represent the Indian board at the ICC meetings later this month © IntThe BCCI's special general meeting was adjourned on Sunday because the board decided to wait for a Supreme Court directive on whether disqualified office bearers could attend meetings of the Indian board or the ICC. The adjournment happened because some disqualified office bearers like N Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah attended the meeting in Delhi. The court is expected to give its decision at a hearing on Monday.

The Supreme-Court appointed Committee of Administrators, which runs the Indian board, had sought the urgent intervention of the Court in the matter two days before the meeting, following the likelihood that office bearers disqualified under the Lodha Committee's recommendations would attend. The CoA had also warned state associations that only eligible officials could attend Sunday's meeting.

However, the special general meeting, chaired by acting BCCI president CK Khanna, was attended by former president Srinivasan, former Saurashtra Cricket Association secretary Niranjan Shah, and former Kerala Cricket Association president TC Mathew, who are in violation of the Lodha Committee's recommendations. Both Shah and Mathew attended the meeting as representatives of their state associations. BCCI CEO Rahul Johri did not attend the meeting, neither did any member of CoA.

One of the points on the agenda for Sunday's meeting was to pick a BCCI representative for crucial ICC board meetings later this month, where resolutions concerning governance structures and revenue distribution could come up for voting. The Indian board's office bearers reportedly want to nominate Srinivasan as the representative.

Srinivasan, who represented the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association at the SGM, is in violation of the Lodha Committee recommendations on three fronts. He is past the age cap of 70 years and has also completed nine years as office-bearer of both the TNCA and the BCCI, which disqualifies him automatically. Srinivasan has not yet resigned as TNCA president, violating the Supreme Court's order of July 2016, which had approved the Lodha Committee recommendations.

Srinivasan, also a former chairman of the ICC, was one of the individuals responsible for a phase of governance and financial restructuring in cricket's governing body that gave greater power to the BCCI, Cricket Australia and the ECB. The ICC has recently sought to overturn those changes with the introduction, in principle, of a new constitution that attempts to correct the imbalance of power given to the three boards. The Big Three rollback was initiated during the tenure of Shashank Manohar, who replaced Srinivasan as ICC chairman in November 2015.ernational Cricket Council