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  • BCCI to invite fresh bids for TV rights

    BCCI to invite fresh bids for TV rights

    MUMBAI: After a controversial telecast rights saga, which had kept the rights of domestic cricket in limbo, the Indian cricket board has decided to invite fresh bids.

    The norms and guidelines are to be framed by a marketing committee to be set up soon, according to Press Trust of India (PTI) report.

    The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) working committee, which met in Thiruvananthapuram over the past two days, also decided to file a Rs 100 million defamation suit against Netaji Cricket Club of Chennai (NCC) for dragging it to court over the legality of last year’s elections, the agency report stated.

    The Committee authorised Board president Ranbir Singh Mahendra to take a decision on Vice President Kamal Morarka’s complaint against Rajasthan Cricket Association chief Lalit Modi.

    Morarka had alleged that Modi was convicted on charges of kidnapping and smuggling in the US 20 years ago and demanded the later’s removal from all posts in the Board, the agency reported.

    Besides ratifying the appointment of Greg Chappell as the national coach, the board decided on the future itinerary of the Indian cricket team.

    Addressing the media after the meeting, Mahendra said the Board decided to spare Tamil Nadu Cricket Association of any stringent action including suspension of grants and financial assistance provided the latter assured it would not co-operate with the two of its affiliates, the Bharti Club and the Theyagaraya Cricket Club, who have filed a series of petitions against the BCCI, the agency reported.

    The appointment of a media manager for the Board would be decided by September this year.

    BCCI vice-president Kamal Morarka, who had flown back to Mumbai after the first day, said with the Supreme Court upholding the Board’s decision to cancel the contract provisionally awarded to Zee Network, the decks were cleared for a fresh tender process.

    “The marketing committee comprises the president, the secretary and the vice presidents of the Board. The president will decide if anyone should be included as well,” Morarka said.

    “The dates of inviting the tenders, as well as the norms like the period of rights, will be decided by the marketing Committee,” he added.

  • SC puts off BCCI case hearing to 30 November

    SC puts off BCCI case hearing to 30 November

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has rescheduled to 30 November its final hearing of the India cricket board case.

    The apex court had in its last hearing of the case on 11 October, fixed 26 October for final hearing on the petitions filed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), challenging a Madras High Court order restraining newly-elected board officials from functioning.

    The Supreme Court had then stayed the Madras HC order restraining newly elected/appointed office-bearers from taking over the board. The apex board had also kept the cricket board supremo Jagmohan Dalmiya on the back foot by restraining him from becoming the BCCI’s patron-in-chief.

    The bench, comprising Justices N Santosh Hegde and SB Sinha, had stated then that prima facie the high court did not act properly by passing the order restraining the newly elected board while entertaining a review petition filed by Netaji Cricket Club (NCC), the petitioner before the high court.

    Till 30 November, the apex court’s interim order of 11 October will continue to be in force.

    The reason given for the postponement by the constitution bench headed by Justice Hegde is that the hearing could not be completed as another matter had to be heard first, due to which the hearing was rescheduled.

  • SC stays Madras HC order on BCCI office bearers

    SC stays Madras HC order on BCCI office bearers

    NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board can function as usual as the Supreme Court today stayed a Madras High Court order restraining office-bearers from taking over the board.

    But the apex board also kept cricket board’s past chief Jagmohan Dalmiya on the back foot by restraining him from becoming the board’s patron-in-chief.

    A bench, comprising Justices N Santosh Hegde and SB Sinha, felt that prima facie the high court did not act properly by passing the order restraining the newly elected board while entertaining a review petition filed by Netaji Cricket Club (NCC), the petitioner before the high court, agencies reported today.

    The Bench noticed skeletons tumbling out of the cupboards as NCC pointed out serious irregularities in the recent elections of the Board and observed that “if we are satisfied, we may order holding of fresh elections for the board.”

    After hearing the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA), NCC and DC Agashe, representing the Maharashtra Cricket Association, the bench fixed 26 October for final hearing on the petitions and passed an interim direction staying the Madras High Court order.

    Taking into account alleged irregularities in the election of Ranbir Singh Mahendra as the board president and the apprehension that Dalmiya would become patron-in-chief of the board, the Bench said that “in the meanwhile, Dalmiya is restrained from getting elected/appointed as the patron-in-chief.”

    The BCCI had filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court on Saturday challenging a Madras HC order restraining newly-elected board officials from functioning and the appointment of Supreme Court judge S Mohan as its interim administrator.

    The BCCI in its SLP had contended that if the high court order was implemented, it would bring Indian cricket to a standstill as even selection of the Indian team for the India-Australia series would not be possible.

    Meanwhile, Justice Mohan filed a report today in the Madras High Court regarding the “treatment meted out to him” when he had gone to the BCCI office in Mumbai to take charge on Saturday. It may be recalled that when Justice Mohan reached the office on Saturday, he was greeted by a locked door.

    “The matter is confidential. But I have filed a factual report,” the Press Trust of India filed from Chennai quoted Justice Mohan as saying.

  • Madras HC restrains BCCI office-bearers from functioning

    Madras HC restrains BCCI office-bearers from functioning

    MUMBAI: Talk about strange ironies. A little over a week after he was turned away, at the door as it were, from overseeing the elections to decide new office-bearers of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the Madras High Court has put retired Supreme Court judge S Mohan in charge of the richest cricket board in the world.

    In an interim order passed today, a division bench of the Madras High Court has restrained the newly-elected office-bearers of the Board of Control for Cricket in India from functioning and appointed retired Supreme Court justice S Mohan as interim administrator. Subject to him agreeing to the appointment of course.

    It needs recalling that a single judge bench of the Madras High Court had on 28 September appointed justice Mohan to conduct the elections in accordance with BCCI rules. This appointment was stayed by a division bench of the Madras HC the next day (the same day the BCCI elections were held).

    The division bench issued its order today on a review petition filed by Chennai-based Netaji Cricket Club (NCC) that had sought to set aside the election of BCCI office bearers.

    The club also wanted the newly elected members to be restrained from functioning and an interim administrator appointed to run the Board’s affairs.

    The club contended it was aggrieved by a division bench order of 29 September, setting aside the single judge’s order a day earlier appointing justice Mohan as commissioner to conduct the BCCI election.

    The bench questioned the manner in which BCCI elections were held last week at Kolkata, reports the Press trust of India.

    “Prima Facie, we feel that an undertaking given before the court, pertaining to the conduct of the election, has been violated. We are satisfied there is a prima facie case for granting interim orders,” the Bench has been quoted by PTI as saying.

    The judges also granted leave to chairman of the Maharashtra Cricket Association Dyaneshwar Agashe to file a review application.

    On Thursday, Agashe had sought leave of the court to file a review application, similar to that filed by the Club.

    It was after justice Mohan was prevented from conducting the BCCI election that board supremo took charge of the poll process.

    In the end it came right down to the wire with Maharashtra’s political heavyweight and Unionh agriculture minister Sharad Pawar tied at 15 votes with Dalmiya’s nominee Ranbir Singh Mahendra. It was Dalmiya’s casting vote that swung the poll in Mahendra’s favour.