CEO Rahul Johri to take over day-to-day activities of BCCI

CEO Rahul Johri to take over day-to-day activities of BCCI BCCI CEO Rahul Johri will “convene” the senior selection committee meeting to pick the ODI and T20 teams for the upcoming India-England series this month. Johri has been mandated by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha panel to go ahead with the meeting on Friday in Mumbai after the BCCI’s current office-bearers

were rendered ineligible to hold their posts post the Supreme Court’s January 2 order.

According to the BCCI constitution, the power to convene a selection meeting rested with the Board secretary. But, since Ajay Shirke, along with BCCI president Anurag Thakur, has been removed by the Court, there’s no eligible office-bearer in the Board to carry out this duty.

The Court had said in its order that the most senior BCCI vice-president will take over as interim president, while the joint secretary (Amitabh Choudhary) will be the interim secretary, provided both fulfill the eligibility criteria set out by the Lodha panel. But, Choudhary stands disqualified for overshooting his term by several years as an office-bearer of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA). His ineligibility set rumour mills agog that the meeting had been put off by the BCCI. But Johri, who had been directed by the SC to run the day-to-day operations of the BCCI until the Court appoints a panel of administrators by January 19, turned to Justice Lodha panel for clarity. Johri wrote an email to panel’s secretary Gopal Sankaranarayanan apprising him of his predicament.

It has been learnt that the panel immediately responded by informing Johri that he can convene the meeting in “exceptional circumstances”. “…but this will be one off meeting with this selection panel and him as the BCCI CEO.