Court to BCCI: 'Fall in line or we will make you fall in line'
The Supreme Court has warned the BCCI that if it "does not fall in line" and follow the court's directive to implement the Lodha Committee's recommendations, it will take measures to enforce them
Lodha hits out at BCCI president Thakur
In its status report filed in the Supreme Court, the Lodha Committee singled out BCCI president Anurag Thakur for making "objectionable" statements that "undermined" the court order. The report also said Thakur had failed to respond to or meet the Committee even once.
"Despite several emails sent to the President of BCCI as well as a direction to appear on August 9, there has been not a single response by him to the Committee," RM Lodha, the chairman of the Committee, said in the report. "He has also requested the ICC to issue a letter stating that this Committee amounts to Governmental interference. In addition, over the course of the last few weeks, several very objectionable statements have been made by him to the press which undermine this Hon'ble Court and this Committee."
Lodha cited statements made by Thakur over the last few months that highlighted how the BCCI was being "sidelined", "arm twisted" and pushed into a corner by "people who have never even played the game, they are trying to govern the board."
Nagraj Gollapudi is a senior assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo