Did whatever was good and in the interest of the Board: Shashank Manohar

Having stepped down as president of the embattled Indian cricket board under fire from the Supreme Court, Shashank Manohar on Saturday said he quit as he was not capable of implementing the recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee and see BCCI’s structure collapsing. “I did whatever was good and in the interest of the board even before the Lodha committee recommendations were given. I’m not a person who is capable of implementing them,” the Nagpur lawyer, who has become the first independent chairman of the International Cricket Council, said here.

“There may be more capable people in this board than me who can implement these. I can’t see an organisation being destroyed which has been built by so many persons,” he said.

“Today in the entire world of cricket India is doing better in administration, infrastructure, cricket and finances. What more can you expect No institution in this world is perfect.

“I also believe it’s people who make a difference. Statutes are only provisions to make the difference. You need good people to run an organisation and not laws,” Manohar explained.

He said the board had already implemented 75 per cent of the Lodha panel’s recommendations for sweeping reforms in the BCCI, but had reservations on a few of them which, he felt, were not good for the game.

“When I took over this board, the Lodha Comm-ittee work was in pro-gress. Even before the recommendations came many of them had already been implemented by the board. Seventy-five per cent of the recommendations are very good. But I have reservations about 4-5 of them.”