The BCCI on Friday said that it has not spent Rs3.90 crore on the Justice R M lodha committee but “less than a 10th” of that amount. Reacting to a report which said that the BCCI has already spent Rs3.90 crore for the Supreme Court-appointed lodha committee set up to suggest reforms in the cricket board in the wake of the recent spot fixing scandal, the BCCI said that the news was “wholly false and concocted”.
“Over the last 4 months since its formation, the Committee has had more than a dozen sittings in various parts of the country and the amount spent is less than a tenth of what has been misreported,” the Board said in a statement.
‘No immediate chances of Indo-Pak cricket revival’
Chandigarh: Amid speculation over the fate of the proposed India-Pakistan series, IPl chairman Rajeev Shukla today said there are “no immediate chances” of revival of cricketing ties between the two countries.
PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan had recently met his Indian counterpart Jagmohan Dalmiya in Kolkata and then BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur in New Delhi to host a bilateral series in December in UAE. According to an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) signed between the two boards, India and Pakistan had agreed to play six bilateral series until 2022, but Shukla said that a number things need to be worked out before giving the go-ahead to the proposed series by PCB.
“Though talks between the boards of two countries have held recently, but there are no immediate chances of revival of cricketing ties between India and Pakistan,” Shukla said.