Sweeping reforms to revive its battered image, including the appointment of an ombudsman, and former chief N Srinivasan's future as ICC Chairman will dominate the agenda when the BCCI holds its 86th Annual General Meeting here on Sunday.
Appointment of the Ombudsman, or Ethics Officer, is one of the key changes that have been proposed in the BCCI's Memorandum of Rules and Regulations to be taken up at the AGM.
With the soon-to-be-delivered recommendations over governance reforms by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice lodha Committee hanging over them, the Board members are all set to clear the way for this pathbreaking move which was announced by Shashank Manohar after being re-elected as the BCCI president last month.
The Ombudsman will be appointed "to deal with the complaints of Conflict of Interest and any act of indiscipline or misconduct or violation of any of the Rules and Regulations of the Board by an administrator," as per the wordings of the clause that has been proposed to be taken up at the AGM.
The AGM, which was postponed by more than a month from its normal late September date, is expected to put in place strict compliance protocols to the Conflict of Interest regulations in the wake of the SC's cracking of the whip on this matter.
It will be interesting to see whether the BCCI general body will decide to retain its former president and Tamil Nadu strongman N Srinivasan as its representative on the International Cricket Council as the chairman.
There have been news reports recently that BCCI would change its nomination vis-a-vis ICC and name Manohar as the new chairman till the next Annual Conference of the world governing body in June when the Indian board-nominated person's term comes to an end.
Srinivasan is not scheduled to attend the AGM and Tamil Nadu CA is to be represented by VP P S Raman.
IPl to get new teams on Dec 8
The IPl Governing Council on Sunday decided to omit Jaipur and Kochi from the list of cities which will bid for new IPl teams on December 8.
BCCI WC had decided to replace CSK and RR following the interim report of the SC-appointed Justice lodha Committee on the spot fixing and betting scandal in the IPl 2013. IPl Chairman Rajeev Shukla informed that process to find new teams will begin after Nov 15 and interested parties can seek clarification till Dec 4.
"The IPl GC decided to leave out Jaipur and Kochi as franchise venues," Shukla said adding that "nine venues" have been finalised for bidding.