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End of road for Sharad Pawar, N Srinivasan
The former strongman of world and Indian cricket, N. Srinivasan, may have to vacate his post in his lair in Chepauk.
The former strongman of world and Indian cricket, N. Srinivasan, may have to vacate his post in his lair in Chepauk. The TNCA president, who is 71, would have to fall in line with top court orders placing an age limit on cricket administrators.
Srinivasan won’t be the only one affected by the sweeping reforms to be put in place within six months. Another BCCI-ICC chief in Sharad Pawar (75) would also face the age guillotine in Mumbai CA, where he is the president. Niranjan Shah (72), a one-man admin army in Saurashtra, would also have to vacate his post. The apparatchiks of a gerentocracy will have to move on.
The blow would, however, be the hardest for the TN administrator who ruled over world cricket like a titan until the top court caught up with his defiant acts and made him step down as BCCI president by rendering him ineligible to continue after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was caught betting on IPL matches.
The SC verdict will also mean that BCCI president Anurag Thakur (Himachal Pradesh), secretary Ajay Shirke (Maharashtra), treasurer Aniruddh Chaudhary (Haryana) and joint secretary Amitabh Chaudhary (Jharkhand) will have to forego their positions in their respective state associations to avoid “conflict of Interest” situations.
PTI adds, BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke made it clear that he will be relinquishing his post of president of Maharashtra Cricket Association as the “parent body will need him more” in a situation when it is going through major structural reforms.
With Supreme Court making it clear that it will be a case of one post per person in the cricket body, the Pune based business tycoon has made his choice.
“I have always said that I have no fascination for designations. If somebody wants, they can take away both posts (BCCI and MCA) from me. But if you ask me, I feel at this juncture, the board (BCCI) needs me more than my state association. I am a person who will not run away from my responsibilities unless the members ask me to do so,” Shirke said.
