Jaipur : Amrit Mathur, the convener of the five-member committee appointed by the BCCI to look after the affairs of Rajasthan cricket Association is (RCA) likely to set the ball rolling on Sunday.
While Mathur is arriving here, it’s not known when other members of the Board’s committee would come.
Even after the BCCI appointed a committee to run the affairs of cricket in a faction-ridden state the ball is still in the High Court. Two petitions filed by the cricketers of the state in the Jaipur and Jodhpur bench are yet to be heard.
The Jodhpur court is likely to hear a petition on Monday in which the cricketers led by Pankaj Singh urged the court to intervene in the matter. The BCCI did a smart job by appointing a committee to run the affairs of the RCA much before the court could give a directive to the BCCI.
The Indian board has set up a committee in the best interest of the cricketers and the BCCI has pre-empted the court’s view.
The Modi faction which is hurt by the decision of the BCCI to put a life ban on former IPL boss Lalit Modi and also a ban on the RCA for electing a banned person as the president is likely to oppose the move of the High Court if it gives a directive to the BCCI to run the affair of the RCA.
In Rajasthan, the various sports associations are run following the Rajasthan Sports Act. The state government could set up a an ad-hoc body to run the RCA and this body is empowered to run the RCA show.
After the dispute arose in the RCA when a Lalit Modi loyalist Ameen Pathan, who was the vice president in the Modi-led RCA revolted against Modi and formed an ad-hoc committee with himself as the convener.
The High Court after this issued a direction and appointed the RCA curator and former Ranji player Taposh Chatterjee as the convener of a committee to select the various teams. But Ameen Pathan the leader of the ad hoc group objected to the Chatterjee led committee. Pathan wanted a committee to be set up by the BCCI that should include members of the ad-hoc group with some members of the BCCI.
But this formula was unacceptable to the BCCI. Now the committee comprising CK Khanna, PV Shetty, Snehal Parekh, Milind Kannamadikar and Amrit Mathur as the convener will also have to organise five Ranji Trophy matches that Rajasthan will host apart from the junior cricket fixtures which Rajasthan will have to host.
Thus a clear picture would emerge only after the first hearing in the High Court at Jodhpur where a clear directive of the judicature will pave way for further progress.