Vinod Rai reveals that the CoA will be in power only until October

The chairman of the Supreme Court appointed Committee of Administrators Vinod Rai made it clear that the CoA can exercise its powers on the Board of Control for Cricket in India only until October, after which its tenure ends and the board will conduct fresh elections. However, in the remaining 5 months, Rai is confident that the CoA will address and rectify all those issues for which it was formed after BCCI’s Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke were removed from their posts.

This committee which oversees the proceedings of the BCCI was formed on January 30, 2017, and constitutes 4 members – Rai who is the chairman and previously worked as the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, historian Ramachandra Guha, Diana Edulji – former captain of Indian Women’s team and and managing director and CEO of IDFC (Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation) Vikram Limaye.

No place for CoA in BCCI

“It is still a long haul, but that ends in October,” Rai told ESPNcricinfo. “I am very realistic, because I don’t see a place for the CoA in the BCCI in the long term. We want to provide a structure to the BCCI. It does not have one right now. It is run by individual styles. It is personality-oriented. We will put a structure in place and ensure that there are systems that will make this structure work.”

Rai further added that the committee in its first few months addressed issues like defining powers of the committee, IPL’s organisation and the ICC’s Board meetings. Recently, when the BCCI had a tussle with the ICC over the new revenue model, the CoA also had a say in it.

“I told them if the BCCI members had decided to withdraw from the ICC on the basis of the differences on the governance model, the CoA will back them. But not on the finance model. You cannot put Indian cricket at risk,” Rai said.