BCCI Apex Council: Meets To Speak About IPL, All Eyes On Ganguly & Shah.
Shah’s tenure became over in May, while Ganguly’s tenure is set to run out this month Friday to talk about several critical issues related to the resumption of the sport in India. The coronavirus pandemic has delivered all cricket activity inside the united states to a standstill over the past four months.
Topmost at the time table is the scheduling of the Indian Premier League 2020 in addition to plans for the approaching domestic season and rejigging the Future Tours Programme of the senior Indian team, which become affected because of the global lockdown. Also, on the schedule can be starting the look for a brand new CEO, CFO and fill other vacant positions. As ways as the IPL is concerned, the BCCI is unlikely to make a formal statement tomorrow, as the ICC is yet to officially put off the ICC T20 World Cup, to be held in Australia in November this year.
The cancellation is a close to certainty, with the ICC govt board set to satisfy and take a very last name on the equal on Monday afternoon. The window will then be available to the IPL. Australia, in particular Melbourne, has visible a surge in the COVID-19 positive instances. Cricket Australia has already expressed its doubts over hosting the competition this yr and wishes a brand new window either in 2021 or 2022. BCCI president Sourav Ganguly will represent the Indian board at the ICC meeting.
The BCCI apex council, meanwhile, will speak the opportunity of setting up IPL in India or abroad. THE WEEK has reliably learnt that the UAE may be the possible destination, given that the Gulf kingdom has COVID-19 in control. Also, keeping it in bio-secure surroundings is more in all likelihood in Dubai than in India at present. In fact, the probabilities of the IPL in India are nearly non-existent, with the COVID-19 nice instances on the rise every day.
Dubai has three venues of international popular even as Abu Dhabi has two venues. Life is close to regular within the Gulf nation, despite the fact that all social distancing norms are being followed and the mask being worn. “Creating a bio-secure environment for gamers and officers will no longer be as big a mission in UAE because it might be in India. The bar has been set by means of England Cricket Board with its series against West Indies. Can BCCI meet that bar at home?” asked any other senior cricket official.
Also, inside the meeting, some team owners raised the problem of who they ought to speak to in the BCCI with question marks over the future of its president's and secretary’s tenures. The apex council meeting may be important, too, from the factor of view of BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, who will be chairing the meeting, and secretary Jay Shah who has convened the meeting. Ganguly is presently in domestic quarantine after his brother Snehasish, who's the CAB joint secretary, tested positive for COVID-19.
While Shah’s tenure as according to the brand new charter of BCCI become over in May, Ganguly’s tenure is about to expire this month. Both should now enter the mandatory cooling-off period. However, maintaining it in mind, Shah had filed a special petition in May within the Supreme Court asking for an extension of his and Ganguly’s tenure. The waiver of the required cooling-off period, Shah’s application said, changed into to be applied most effectively to BCCI and now not to kingdom associations. This is the second such petition filed inside the apex court; the first turned into filed in December.
As of now, it seems the duo will continue in their posts till the time the Supreme Court hears their plea. An indication of the same is the reality that BCCI’s recent communications have been signed with the aid of Shah, as indicated by several BCCI veterans, even though his tenure is formally over.