The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been receiving severe criticism from the Supreme Court for their ways of operation and lack of transparency, since the 2012 match-fixing scandal where 5 players were banned.
In the ongoing hearings on the recommendations of the Lodha Committee to curb this menace, the BCCI insisted on knowing the names of the 10 other players mentioned in the earlier probe report submitted by Justice Mukul Mudgal last February, regarding the 2013 corruption scandal.
Only 3 out of the 13 names mentioned in the list have come out in the open, the other 10 have not been revealed. The board now wants the Supreme Court to reveal these names to the BCCI or to the CBI to further investigate.
According to reports from TOI, the BCCI lawyers are likely to bring this matter up in the court proceedings in the coming days.
"We want those names to come out. Why were those names not made public? It's, after all, a Supreme Court-appointed committee. Fans should know all the names which appeared in the Justice Mudgal's probe report," a BCCI official told TOI on Wednesday.
The BCCI headed by N Srinivasan then had pleaded before the Supreme Court to not reveal the names of the players mentioned in the report of the probe committee in 2014. The sudden interest of the board in those names now is something speculative.
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Meanwhile, one of the senior officials of the board complained against the Supreme Courts order to BCCI, to try and implement all the suggestions made by the Lodha panel. He claimed that the panel has suggested decentralising the power of the board, but suggested nothing on a more important matter of how to curb spot-fixing.
On July 15, 2015, the Supreme Court banned all the players and people involved the racket, including N Srinivasan’s son-in-law, Meiyappan, and the co-owner of Rajasthan Royals, Raj Kundra from holding any power as owners of teams in Cricket in the future.
The Lodha Panel was formed by the Supreme Court in 2015 after the match-fixing scandal came into light, but it has failed to give any sure shot steps to curb the menace. The only solution given by the Lodha panel to curb match-fixing is to legalise betting.
"Examine and make suitable recommendations to the BCCI for such reforms in its practices and procedures and such amendments in the Memorandum of Association, Rules and Regulations as may be considered necessary and proper." – Supreme Court verdict.
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