VCA set to be first Lodha compliant BCCI unit

MUMBAI: Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) will perhaps be the first affiliated unit of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to follow the Supreme Court

MUMBAI: Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) will perhaps be the first affiliated unit of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to follow the Supreme Court mandate.

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The VCA, the home turf of ICC Chairman Shashank Manohar, is set to amend its constitution on September 30 as per the Lodha Committee’s recommendations during a Special General Meeting. The Lodha Committee had set September 30 as the deadline for the BCCI and its affiliated units to prepare new rules and regulations and Memorandum of Association as per the committee’s recommendations, which have been accepted and have to be implemented as per the Supreme Court’s order in July.

The BCCI too has called for a Special General Meeting (SGM) in Mumbai to discuss the Lodha Committee’s recommendations.

On November 15, the VCA is set to elect a new body — again sticking to the Lodha Committee’s timeline. It is learnt that the VCA has already notified those members who have completed nine years in cricket administration to refrain from contesting.

“Yes, we have called an SGM. We will brief our members about the Lodha Committee’s recommendations. It is the members who will pass the amendments to the constitution. I am no one to make this big change,” VCA president VCA president Prakash Dixit told HT. What if the members resist making these amendments? “Do we have a choice?” asked Dixit.