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Topic: Lodha Committee

Has Indian cricket administration become messier after Supreme Court involvement in 2015?

ThePrint Team -
Former cricketer and BJP MP Gautam Gambhir has said that Indian cricket should be run by administrators and not the Supreme Court, days before BCCI is scheduled to hold elections for the first time since January 2017.

Family season in BCCI as sons, daughters & brothers of top officials take over state bodies

Lokendra Pratap Sahi -
From Anurag Thakur’s brother Arun Thakur to N. Srinivasan’s daughter Rupa Gurunath, kin of one-time top BCCI officials now occupy top posts in state bodies.

This is why Team India played its first World Cup match 6 days after tournament began

Samyak Pandey -
The hand behind India’s schedule was BCCI, which used a Lodha panel recommendation to get a 15-day break for Team India after IPL ended.

SC’s BCCI rollback: Belated admission that meddling in cricket was a blunder or half retreat?

ThePrint Team -
The Supreme Court Thursday ruled on the BCCI’s draft constitution. While it reversed the ‘one state, one vote’ order it passed two years ago,...

SC dumps ‘one state, one vote’ policy, relaxes cooling-off period rule for BCCI officials

Ritika Jain -
The apex court also granted permanent membership to the cricket associations of Mumbai, Saurashtra, Vadodara and Vidarbha.

Former judges sent to run Mumbai cricket body get caught in battle for IPL passes

Manasi Phadke -
The CoA gave free passes to serving judges, even as it drastically reduced the number allotted to MCA management.

Sacked by Lodha panel-appointed official, Hyderabad cricket body chief moves SC

Ritika Jain -
Vivekanand challenges order that deemed he held ‘office of profit’ and had ‘conflict of interest’.

Superboss of Indian cricket Vinod Rai turns 70. Shouldn’t he play by rule and resign?

Divya Narayanan -
Vinod Rai as head of CoA is in charge of implementing Lodha reforms, one of which capped age of cricket administrators at 70.

DDCA set to hold first election in five years with all the thrills of a T-20 match

Ritika Jain -
The election will be held without the proxy voting system, under which members were not required to be at the election booth to cast their ballot.

Will Vinod Rai retire for the third time, adhering to Lodha committee’s age cap?

Talha Ashraf -
The SC-appointed Lodha panel had recommended that office-bearers in the BCCI should not stay on be beyond the age of 70. Will the CoA chief stick to it?
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