There has been an air of unease in the corridors of the Indian cricket board, regarding what the Justice Lodha panel report may be all about. BCCI officials have been given to understand that the report will be binding on the board.
Regarding the board's worry over 'one state one association' proposal that is likely to be introduced by the Lodha panel, a senior official said: "The Marylebone Cricket Club isn't a body that engages in decision making. They left that to the ICC back in 1993. There is a certain sense of history attached to it and forms a cultural fabric of the sport and its origin. How can history be done away with."
Maharashtra has three associations -Mumbai, Maharashtra and Vidarbha -primarily because history willed it that way. The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) is a continuation of the Bombay Presidency, also known as the Bombay Province and Bombay and Sind from 1843 to 1936, which was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India.
Likewise, Nagpur -the biggest city in Vidarbha -was the capital of the Central Provinces and Berar in British India and later the Dominion of India which existed between the 1930s and the 1950s. Maharashtra - primarily Pune and Mahabaleshwar made way for the Bombay Presidency's administrative bodies to function in summer.
"The same would apply to the history of Saurashtra and Baroda. Gujarat came later. There was no Gujarat back then," said another official. These are aspects that the Lodha committee may have not figured, keeping in mind that their only clarity of thought was in having a simpler voting pattern for the BCCI.
It is reliably learnt that the NCC in Kolkata and the Cricket Club of India will also lose their voting rights in the BCCI.
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