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Updated: 05 Nov 2019 5:43 pm

If cricket administration were the subject of a drama, the plot twists couldn’t get more suspenseful than this. Close to midnight on October 13, as over 50 cricket officials from across the country waited anxiously in the Sunset Hall of Trident hotel in Mumbai, former cricket supremo N. Srinivasan got “the honour” of announcing the ‘unanimously’ chosen candidates for the impending Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) elections. A compromise had just been reached after many days of backroom lobbying, in which Union home minister Amit Shah was closely involved.

The irony was that of Srinivasan, 74, disqualified by the Lodha panel-written BCCI constitution, making the announcement. Another irony was that MoS for finance Anurag Thakur, who headed the largest, BJP-backed, group in the BCCI, had also been sacked by the Supreme Court, like Srinivasan, a few years ago. Both were in the fight to control the BCCI.