Supreme Court orders all cricket associations to follow Lodha Panel recommendations

The Lodha Committee, headed by Judge RM Lodha, the BCCI had provided a series of recommendations to reform the functioning of the cricketing body. The Lodha Panel had found earlier this year that if the cricket associations and the BCCI are not reformed, it will be difficult to find a clean management system.

A number of cricket associations across the country have shown their dissatisfaction after to the recommendations read.
But now the Supreme Court has ordered the cricket associations to follow the recommendations of the Lodha panel.

"Once BCCI is reformed walk the line down and all cricket associations must reform itself if it is to be associated with it. The committee is in a row of match-fixing and spot-fixing allegations was a serious exercise and not futile exercise", a Bank was directed to the apex court of Chief Justice T S. Thakur was quoted as saying by PTI.

Justice F.M.I. Kalif Ulla, who is also a part of the bank, said that these steps have been taken by a committee of experts. So the cricket associations may not only to this just another recommendation relate.

The Bank ordered the BCCI most recommendations perform. "It will not stay longer just recommendations, if we say that it has to be implemented. It was called recommendations, as some of the results of the Committee have been implemented by BCCI during the discussions themselves and some were not implemented," Kalif said Ulla.

A lawyer appeared for Haryana Cricket Associations and gave their objections to some of the proposed by Lodha Panel recommendations. They opposed especially the 70-year cap for officers.

In its reply to the statement of the Council, the Bank stated that the age cap should be maintained and officers must, to make room for the other.

"Do you think that some public officials in Cricket thinking body, are indispensable. Nobody indispensable holiday is the cricket administrators alone. It should be time when you have to say enough is enough and pave way to take care of others," said the Bank Haryana Cricket Association.