Ex-member wants administrator to take charge of Maharashtra CA

An ex-managing committee member of the Maharashtra Cricket Association has written to the Committee of Administrators and wants a similar court-appointed body to run the affairs at MCA.

Citing the recent appointment of a committee of administrators - comprising two retired judges - by the Bombay High Court to run the affairs of the Mumbai Cricket Association by applying the January 2, 2017 order of the Supreme Court, former member Madhav Ranade has stated in his letter to the CoA head Vinod Rai that this needs to be done in the case of Maharashtra CA too.

"The BCCI, as a respondent, supported the petition filed by a member of the Mumbai Cricket Association to appoint a CoA. This has been done. Please do the same for Maharashtra," Ranade said in the letter to Rai.

"I would like to draw your kind attention that 11 office bearers and managing committee members of the Mumbai Cricket Association were disqualified by an order of the Bombay High Court applying the SC order of January 2, 2017.

"By the same yardstick, all committee members of the Maharashtra CA also stand disqualified. The Delhi High Court has given clarity on tenure issues, and hence an anomaly cannot exist in other full member associations of the BCCI."