SC Invokes Afghan Cricket Team

Opposing tooth and nail, the Supreme Court appointed Lodha recommendations of the Committee, in particular for the implementation of game-changing "a state-one vote" proposal Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) said on Friday, the apex court that pitting bring weaker team against strong would the standard of the game down.

The BCCI allows only full members as Orissa to play the top grade domestic cricket and also have a voice, while most northeastern states of Sikkim, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh can not compete because they are either Associate (second rung to full members ) or affiliate members. Since they are not full members, they also do not have the votes in the BCCI.

Strangely, even Bihar, the third largest state of the country and was joined 81 years ago with the BCCI has not the full status and thus not be able to compete in top tournaments like the Ranji Trophy and Trophy Duleep. In 2002, when Bihar was bifurcated, shocking the BCCI, instead gave the full membership status to Jharkhand, which was carved out of the state.

OCA lawyer K. V. Viswanathan, cited cricket set-up of South Africa, give the ICC system of membership to countries, and a sports code, arguing that if weaker teams were to compete against much stronger team the game a "farce" would become.

Against the Orissa Council of the Bank, consisting of Chief Justice of India TS Thakur and FMI Caliph Ulla, gave the examples of the rapid increase in the weak Afghan team on recently in the ICC World Twenty20 for the first time in the competition after qualifying the basis of their good performance and won many hearts, and beat Bangladesh.

The Bank further said that if would play against weaker team that standards bring then at the Olympic Games countries would be rejected to play against India, a weak sporting nation, as their standards would deteriorate.

Previously, OCA Council Viswanathan, "a word of caution" and added, argued before the bench that "certain aspects" of Lodha Committee recommendations "not mechanically, can result for unknowingly greater harm be reacted with the game of cricket" ,

One such aspect, said Viswanathan was, is granting full membership status so that they have the right to vote was "a state-one vote" recommendation.

"If weaker teams play stronger teams immediately [after the complete status by the BCCI get], the standard of cricket in India would down. That's not my statement. I have taken a passage from a book," Sports Law ", by Michael Beloff "Viswanathan told Outlook.

When I told him that weaker teams could only improve by playing stronger opponents, Viswanathan said. "Sure ... right But you must gradually progress you can play with better opponents [but playing against] immediately better opponents is fine, but imagine a .. scenario where Nagaland that any cricketing activity or no have League had been, a XI against a champion team like Bombay or Karnataka, directly collects ... so all I'm saying is that it is the duty of the national associations or the BCCI's first league start there the infrastructure to put in a cricketing culture and bring it to a certain standard, and then compete in the "a" as an associate member [of BCCI].

"Then, a panel of experts will their services would evaluate the past year and then upgrade them. The [BCCI] grant would also depend on the kind of cricketing activity carried out in the previous year. This is the ICC model that I want to [OCA] replicate here "Viswanathan said.

"I have submitted an ICC manual, which explains how it enrolls affiliate members, as they are promoted as associate members and as employees become full members. So we have to follow a pattern of funding. It is true, with a better opponent to play but not with someone who is at the top immediately and that by Beloff, a farce of a game will become degenerate standard both the victor and the vanquished, "he argued.

Apart from Orissa, railways, services and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association also argued on Friday.
Few national associations in addition to joint intervention Applying cricketer Bishan Singh Bedi and Kirti Azad and NCT Cricket Association secretary Sameer Bahadur, also a member of DDCA, the Lodha Committee remain support recommendations to be heard.

As can be seen and heard in the last couple of hearings, the bank has asked some tough questions of BCCI and its affiliates, who objected to a number of recommendations of the three-member committee headed by former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha.

The arguments are likely to close next month, probably before 16 May, when the court is closed for summer break.

And the order / judgment before July 22 could come when justice Caliph Ulla enters retirement. Every time when the order comes, look at the BCCI sure to undergo drastic changes in the structure, and the way it has been for 87 years rules.