Indian Premier League Scam: Sourav Ganguly in BCCI Working Group to Study Lodha Report
Sourav Ganguly is among a group of BCCI top-officials to study the RM Lodha committee report on Indian Premier League betting scam.
Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly has been named in the five-member BCCI Working Group committee that will look into the Justice RM Lodha report on suspension of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals from the Indian Premier League. The others are BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur, IPL Governing Council chairman Rajeev Shukla, the Board's legal head Ushanath Bannerjee and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry. ('Purity of cricket is at stake' | Top 10 developments)
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This group will submit within six weeks, a report on its findings and recommendations to the Governing Council which will then deliberate and share views with the working committee of the BCCI for further action.
The Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee had suspended Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals on July 14, for two years from the IPL in the spot-fixing and betting scandal that rocked the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament in 2013.
"BCCI respects the verdict of the Lodha Commission and will abide by their decisions, in toto. The members recognised that there is an urgent need to understand the impact of this decision and the wider ramifications for BCCI in detail, so as to uphold the paramountcy of the game in our country," Thakur said after an IPL Governing Council meet in Mumbai on Sunday.