Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Judicial over-reachIJ” (January 4). The Supreme Court was not surprising. The writing was on the wall for six months now. Continuous defiance of a judicial order started to raise uncomfortable questions.
How could the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) get away with not implementing the apex court’s orderIJ How could insolence of this nature be allowed to carry on and what precedence will it set for other sports bodies like the Indian Olympic AssociationIJ One must say that the BCCI, by doing what it has over the last six months, has brought it upon itself.
However, cricket won’t stop. Fans won’t stop paying their way as long as Virat Kohli scores a century and Ravichandran Ashwin runs through the opposition.