When the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) took charge some two years back, one of their primary tasks was to form a Players’ Association before starting the process of forming the long-delayed Apex Council.
According to the Lodha Committee recommendations, a member of the players association has to be nominated to the Apex Council. In January last year, the CoA, with permission from the Apex Court had formed a Steering Committee made up of former India cricketers Kapil Dev, Anshuman Gaekwad, Shantha Rangaswamy and Bharat Reddy, along with former home secretary GK Pillai.
Since then the committee has met four times and worked out the way forward for forming the players body. However, on Monday, the CoA mandated that the association should be in place in two weeks, giving the committee two weeks to complete all necessary steps.
“First we have to get the Memorandum of Association (MoA) and Articles of Association in place and thereafter we have to formulate the terms and the eligibility criteria for the players. We have discussed everything but the things aren’t final. We had sent a report to CoA about what meetings we have had with legal team and now it’s up to them,” Steering Committee member Gaekwad told CricketNext.
