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The BCCI’s Augean stables will be cleaned. These men made it possible.

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Indian sports will record July 18, 2016, as a landmark day, when the Supreme Court delivered a scathing judgement against the BCCI that could well clean up not just the world’s wealthiest cricket body but all Indian sports federations. In its 143-page judgment, based on the Lodha Committee report, a bench comprising CJI T.S. Thakur and Justice F.M.I. Kalifulla ordered the BCCI to clean its stable within six months. It also requested the Lodha Committee to oversee the transition. The SC’s main points inc­luded a bar on ministers and bureaucrats from becoming cricket administrators; one vote for all 29 states (Maharashtra and Gujarat have multiple associations); an age cap of 70 years for officials, who will also have to choose between BCCI and home associations; and the appointment of a CAG representative on the management committee. The judgment was delivered on a PIL, initially filed in the Bombay High Court by Adi­tya Verma, secretary of the unrecognised Cricket Association of Bihar, in the 2013 IPL betting-fixing scandal. The case shifted to the SC, which appointed the Mukul Mudgal Committee, which conducted two inquiries. It then appointed the three-member R.M. Lodha Committee, which recommended wide-ranging changes in the BCCI set-up, besides suggesting punishment for two IPL teams and key officials of two IPL franchises.

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