Ready Reckoner: 2016 IPL players auction
Jamie Alter | TNN | Feb 3, 2016, 10.00AM IST
Yuvraj Singh (Getty Images)HIGHLIGHTS
- From an original pool of 714, there will be 351 cricketers up for sale.
- The six existing franchise chose to retain a total of 101 players.
- Yuvraj, Ishant, Pietersen, Watson among others are the marquee players.
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Lodha wants ministers, babus out of BCCI; moots making betting legal
Partha Bhaduri | TNN | Jan 5, 2016, 05.04AM IST
New Delhi: The Indian cricket board (BCCI) could be in for a radical overhaul after the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha Committee proposed several significant changes in the body's administration and governance.
The panel's report covers a wide arc from tenures of officials to ticket distribution. It seeks to impose strict eligibility criteria, limit association votes to one per state, prevent concurrent holding of posts and keep out ministers and government servants. It has also made a strong appeal to lawmakers to legalize cricket betting for all except stakeholders like players, coaches etc, with certain safeguards.
TOI had first reported on Dec 27 that the panel was likely to make these far-reaching recommendations.
The report also seeks to decentralise and professionalise the board's functioning, give players a voice through a new players' association, provide "limited autonomy" to the Indian Premier League (IPL) and do away with redundant voting patterns.
Retired CJI Lodha, who stopped short of renaming the BCCI, said the "biggest challenge" for the three-member panel while seeking to cure Indian cricket's ills was to ensure the "good bacteria was not lost" while providing "the right dose". He admitted the easy way out would have been to bring the cricket body under the government's control. "But we had to ensure the autonomy of BCCI was not affected," he said.
If followed in toto, the proposals may set off an earthquake within the BCCI's corridors which will leave big guns scrambling for cover and rule out many from future positions as administrators. It will also leave many established state associations and members as mere appendages without voting rights.
As it stands, these recommendations will be taken up by an SC bench later this month. While the BCCI naturally has strong objections to the proposed changes and will be given an opportunity to respond, the board may have no choice but to implement the changes in part or full if the court passes orders. "If they don't follow these proposals it will be shoved down their throats," legal sources in the know told TOI.
The only one left smiling on Monday was former IPL COO Sundar Raman, who was spared punitive action after his role as a willing accessory in the IPL spot-fixing scandal could not be satisfactorily ascertained.
The report does a thorough job of peering into every contentious nook and cranny in the board's existing set-up. It prises apart long-established cliques and dismantles core structures. Nothing — from seeking to bring the board under the RTI's ambit, legalize betting and criminalize spot/match-fixing, check regional imbalance, provide norms for registration of agents, dismantle zonal representations and put conflict-of-interest roadblocks in place — seems to have escaped its eagle eye.
Wherever possible, the report also recommends putting external watchdogs in place, from retired judges to former election commissioners. An important recommendation is the appointment of three independent officials, an ombudsman to preside over and formulate dispute resolution mechanisms, an ethics officer to constitute conflict-of-interest parameters and an electoral officer to oversee voting patterns and norms. In what is likely to give the Delhi cricket association bosses the shivers, proxy voting too has been ruled out.
The BCCI's primary headaches, for the moment, are the "one person, one post" and "one state, one vote" recommendations. The BCCI has to now decide which association to give voting rights to, and which association to leave out.
A new all-powerful general body will preside over a nine-member apex council (for all non-IPL cricketing matters) and a governing council (for IPL matters). The almost-sacrosanct working committee has been deleted from the board's books, in favour of a more corporate set-up. How seamlessly it can integrate with the board's ad-hoc manner of functioning, however, is another matter. The BCCI also has concerns over whether such a decentralized system will lead to multiple authority figures and confusion.
Uniform distribution of subsidies to state associations have been done away with, to be replaced by a new "subsidy-as-per-need" basis. In short, state association books will be audited by the BCCI's auditors and they have to show development and infrastructure works to keep taking more of the BCCI's money.
"The committee feels that since the BCCI performs public functions, people have the right to know activities of the BCCI. Whether RTI Act is applicable to BCCI or BCCI is amenable to RTI is sub-judice. We have recommended the legislature must seriously consider bringing BCCI within the purview of the RTI Act," Lodha said, while admitting the BCCI was functioning better than most other sports associations in the country:
"We cannot overlook the good work done by the BCCI in conduct of the tournaments, matches, and improvement in the infrastructure... or in providing financial help by way of pension."
Many of the proposed changes are very welcome, while some — like a three-member senior selection committee for which only Test players are eligible — can prove to be highly debatable. It is now up to the SC to administer this medicine in whatever dose it chooses.
The panel's report covers a wide arc from tenures of officials to ticket distribution. It seeks to impose strict eligibility criteria, limit association votes to one per state, prevent concurrent holding of posts and keep out ministers and government servants. It has also made a strong appeal to lawmakers to legalize cricket betting for all except stakeholders like players, coaches etc, with certain safeguards.
TOI had first reported on Dec 27 that the panel was likely to make these far-reaching recommendations.
Retired CJI Lodha, who stopped short of renaming the BCCI, said the "biggest challenge" for the three-member panel while seeking to cure Indian cricket's ills was to ensure the "good bacteria was not lost" while providing "the right dose". He admitted the easy way out would have been to bring the cricket body under the government's control. "But we had to ensure the autonomy of BCCI was not affected," he said.
As it stands, these recommendations will be taken up by an SC bench later this month. While the BCCI naturally has strong objections to the proposed changes and will be given an opportunity to respond, the board may have no choice but to implement the changes in part or full if the court passes orders. "If they don't follow these proposals it will be shoved down their throats," legal sources in the know told TOI.
The only one left smiling on Monday was former IPL COO Sundar Raman, who was spared punitive action after his role as a willing accessory in the IPL spot-fixing scandal could not be satisfactorily ascertained.
The report does a thorough job of peering into every contentious nook and cranny in the board's existing set-up. It prises apart long-established cliques and dismantles core structures. Nothing — from seeking to bring the board under the RTI's ambit, legalize betting and criminalize spot/match-fixing, check regional imbalance, provide norms for registration of agents, dismantle zonal representations and put conflict-of-interest roadblocks in place — seems to have escaped its eagle eye.
Wherever possible, the report also recommends putting external watchdogs in place, from retired judges to former election commissioners. An important recommendation is the appointment of three independent officials, an ombudsman to preside over and formulate dispute resolution mechanisms, an ethics officer to constitute conflict-of-interest parameters and an electoral officer to oversee voting patterns and norms. In what is likely to give the Delhi cricket association bosses the shivers, proxy voting too has been ruled out.
The BCCI's primary headaches, for the moment, are the "one person, one post" and "one state, one vote" recommendations. The BCCI has to now decide which association to give voting rights to, and which association to leave out.
A new all-powerful general body will preside over a nine-member apex council (for all non-IPL cricketing matters) and a governing council (for IPL matters). The almost-sacrosanct working committee has been deleted from the board's books, in favour of a more corporate set-up. How seamlessly it can integrate with the board's ad-hoc manner of functioning, however, is another matter. The BCCI also has concerns over whether such a decentralized system will lead to multiple authority figures and confusion.
Uniform distribution of subsidies to state associations have been done away with, to be replaced by a new "subsidy-as-per-need" basis. In short, state association books will be audited by the BCCI's auditors and they have to show development and infrastructure works to keep taking more of the BCCI's money.
"The committee feels that since the BCCI performs public functions, people have the right to know activities of the BCCI. Whether RTI Act is applicable to BCCI or BCCI is amenable to RTI is sub-judice. We have recommended the legislature must seriously consider bringing BCCI within the purview of the RTI Act," Lodha said, while admitting the BCCI was functioning better than most other sports associations in the country:
"We cannot overlook the good work done by the BCCI in conduct of the tournaments, matches, and improvement in the infrastructure... or in providing financial help by way of pension."
Many of the proposed changes are very welcome, while some — like a three-member senior selection committee for which only Test players are eligible — can prove to be highly debatable. It is now up to the SC to administer this medicine in whatever dose it chooses.
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