By IANS
New Delhi : The Indian cricket board Wednesday officially announced that those aligning with any organisation not recognised by it would lose all the benefits they are entitled to.
“Every individual has a right to choose whether he wishes to associate himself with the BCCI or any other organisation,” Rajeev Shukla, a vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), told reporters after a meeting of its office bearers.
“However, if he chooses to associate himself with any other organisation then he shall not be entitled to derive any benefit from the BCCI or be associated with any of its activities,” he said at BCCI president Sharad Pawar’s residence where the meeting was held.
However, when asked if the BCCI would ask affiliated units not to rent their facilities to the proposed breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL), he chose to evade the issue.
BCCI treasurer N. Srinivasan, however, chipped in, saying that the grounds do not belong to the board. “It is up to the associations to decide,” he said.
ICL is a brainchild of media magnate Subhash Chandra, whose planned Twenty20 matches in October-November is the hottest talking point in cricketing circles.
Shukla also announced that former India wicketkeeper-batsman Lalchand Rajput would be the cricket manager of the Indian team for the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa in September.
Chandu Borde is the cricket manager of the team now touring England.
Shukla said the BCCI would advertise for a coach within a week.