How N Srinivasan remained defiant yet again at a BCCI meet
The eventual decision by the BCCI to formulate a committee to present any reservations on the court order to the CoA came straight from the old BCCI book of buying time to sit over the issue.
Making a rare appearance at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquarters after being forced to step aside as President four years back, former chief N Srinivasan made his presence felt in two successive meets.
At the Special General Meeting (SGM) on Monday which lasted more than two and half hours, attending as Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) representative, India Today learns Srinivasan took the lead in resistance to Lodha reforms citing 'the 19 affidavits state units had filed with various courts over difficulties in implementing the July 18th 2016 Supreme Court order.'
"We can't go back on them," he told the members.
This was picking up from his terse communication to Committee of Administrators (CoA) head Vinod Rai a day earlier that there wasn't much to talk on the reforms as the matter was subjudice. The meeting closed in 15 minutes.
At the SGM, to justify his argument of not being able to implement the order in current form, Srinivasan even batted for former office bearers Ajay Shirke and Anurag Thakur who he was once at logger heads with.
He told the members they had lost their place in legal battles to preserve the BCCI autonomy and it would not be fair to modify position in their absence.
The eventual decision by the BCCI to formulate a committee to present any reservations on the court order to the CoA came straight from the old BCCI book of buying time to sit over the issue.
Not losing out on an opportunity to register his displeasure over lost money at ICC, Srinivasan reminded the house about the 'Big Three' formula he had deviced as ICC Chairman and suggested the BCCI secretary should use future opportunities to win back the lost USD 200 million from ICC that they deserve.
Demonstrating how being brash rather than composed when instigated was his style, when asked by a reporter if he thought he had the right to attend the meet, Srinivasan replied, "More right than you have to attend any meet."
Making a rare appearance at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquarters after being forced to step aside as President four years back, former chief N Srinivasan made his presence felt in two successive meets.
At the Special General Meeting (SGM) on Monday which lasted more than two and half hours, attending as Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) representative, India Today learns Srinivasan took the lead in resistance to Lodha reforms citing 'the 19 affidavits state units had filed with various courts over difficulties in implementing the July 18th 2016 Supreme Court order.'
"We can't go back on them," he told the members.
This was picking up from his terse communication to Committee of Administrators (CoA) head Vinod Rai a day earlier that there wasn't much to talk on the reforms as the matter was subjudice. The meeting closed in 15 minutes.
At the SGM, to justify his argument of not being able to implement the order in current form, Srinivasan even batted for former office bearers Ajay Shirke and Anurag Thakur who he was once at logger heads with.
He told the members they had lost their place in legal battles to preserve the BCCI autonomy and it would not be fair to modify position in their absence.
The eventual decision by the BCCI to formulate a committee to present any reservations on the court order to the CoA came straight from the old BCCI book of buying time to sit over the issue.
Not losing out on an opportunity to register his displeasure over lost money at ICC, Srinivasan reminded the house about the 'Big Three' formula he had deviced as ICC Chairman and suggested the BCCI secretary should use future opportunities to win back the lost USD 200 million from ICC that they deserve.
Demonstrating how being brash rather than composed when instigated was his style, when asked by a reporter if he thought he had the right to attend the meet, Srinivasan replied, "More right than you have to attend any meet."
