BCCI Secy Showcaused by CoA for Not Attending ICC, ACC Meet

New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) has show-caused BCCI's acting Secretary Amitabh Choudhary for failing to attend the ICC Conference in London post the 2019 World Cup as well as the Asian Cricket Council meeting in September in Bangkok. The CoA has asked the Secretary to explain why action should not be taken against him for failing to represent the board and, more importantly, not informing the committee of his unavailability.

The letter, accessed by IANS, points at the ICC conference as well as the ACC meet where the CoA came to know of him not attending the meeting in the eleventh hour. The CoA has also pointed how the Secretary has not informed the CoA of the agenda of any of the meetings that he has represented the BCCI in and despite that, the CoA has continued to approve his international travels.

"The ICC Conference was scheduled from 14th to 20th of July 2019. The Committee of Administrators came to learn of your unavailability to attend the ICC Conference scheduled in London for the 14th July on 12th July when you merely forwarded your e-mail dated 12th July 2019 to ICC, informing the ICC of your unavailability for the said meetings. The short notice did not leave any room with the Committee of Administrators to appoint a replacement to attend the said meetings in London. Consequently, the BCCI was unrepresented in the board meeting of the ICC.

"Later, the Committee of Administrators had approved your travel to Bangkok to attend the ACC AGM on September 3, 2019. Again at the eleventh hour, you failed to attend the ACC meeting, leaving the interests of the BCCI unattended. You did not even deem it necessary to inform the Committee of Administrators of your unavailability to attend the said meeting. The Committee of Administrators learned of your unavailability, and that too without knowing the reason for the absence, from the Secretary of the ACC as you had mailed to him of your unavailability to attend. Thus, the BCCI learned from the ACC that its own representative was not attending the meeting on the morning of the meeting," the letter read.

"The Committee of Administrators has at all times permitted your international travel for attending ICC and ACC meetings on each occasion. This is despite the fact that you have never deemed it appropriate to brief the Committee of Administrators in advance of the agenda items proposed to be discussed in these meetings or taken its mandate for the discussions or even bothered to keep the Committee of Administrators updated on what transpired in these meetings."

The CoA further wrote that the last two instances have not only made it a matter of humiliation for the BCCI but also saw the interest of the board being compromised due to the action of the Secretary. IANS

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