Sourav Ganguly-led Cricket Association of Bengal Rejects Half of Lodha Panel Recommendations

Sourav Ganguly-led Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) on Friday decided to reject 10 of the 21 recommendations made by the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha committee and will send its suggestions to the BCCI.(Lodha Panel's Top 10 Commandments to BCCI: One State One Association, Come Under RTI)

"Among the rejections are age and tenure issue and the recommendation that government officials can't be the office-bearers in BCCI or its affiliated units," a source told PTI.(Read The Full Lodha Committee Report Here)

"We have decided on the same topic that was arrived at our last meeting. We will forward our suggestions to the BCCI immediately," CAB president Ganguly told reporters after the SGM but did not divulge much."(Lodha Panel Recommendations Good for Indian Cricket: Anil Kumble)

There has been an allegation of conflict of interest against the former India captain, who is an IPL governing council member and also a co-owner of a football club in the Indian Super League, along with industrialists Utsav Parekh, Harsh Neotia and Sanjiv Goenka who recently bought the Pune franchise in the T20 cricket tournament.(Sourav Ganguly Yet to Respond to Conflict of Interest Query: BCCI Ombudsman)

On the issue of conflict of interest, a top CAB official said that they had to 'accept it' as the Board had already agreed to comply to it.

"Unfortunately, the last two games we haven't executed well at all, and it means we've fallen in the hole through the middle order. And I certainly put my hand up especially because batting at nos. 5/6, that's my specific role. Unfortunately I haven't been doing my job," said Watson who could score just 15 runs today.

"It's like a law, we had to say yes to it," the official said adding that the issue of one-state-one-association did not come up for discussion in the nearly 40-minute-long SGM attended by about 90 members.