Mumbai: Torn between the legal battle of principles of transparency, along with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the apex court appointed Lodha Committee, Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) has joined the bandwagon requesting an “expulsion of seven directors”, as reported on Tuesday.
On the request of DDCA president Sneh Bansal, its two joint secretaries- Subhash Sharma and Dinesh Sharma have written a letter to BCCI President Anurag Thakur to expel the DDCA directors who were openly welcoming Lodha reforms.
The expulsion not only included former Indian player Chetan Chauhan, but also Siddharth Verma, Salil Seth, Surya Prakash Sharma, Ajay Sharma, Ashok Sharma, Vikas Katyal. Since they have moved to the “Delhi High Court seeking urgent implementation of Lodha Committee recommendations”.
The letter states: “Needless to say acts of Chetan Chauhan and his team of seven minority group is an act of gross indiscipline and we demand strict action against individuals who despite being incumbent directors of association have “indulged in anti-BCCI activities and are guilty of conduct which is likely to endanger the harmony and effect the stability or interest of DDCA, such members should liable for expulsion from the association.”
Chauhan states the situation is extremely harrowing for his teammates and him, “These people don’t know what they are writing. It is immature of them to write such things. Our issue is not about implementation of reforms but about how DDCA has been run since end January 2014.”
“I will not allow the association to go into wrong hands so long as I am in the association. There is a person against whom there has been allegations of financial irregularities. It’s funny those who had made the allegations then have now joined hands,” Chauhan adds determined, not naming Bansal.
The ongoing cold war between Bansal and Chauhan is very evident, in the meantime our team suffers as it stands at a mighty number one position in Tests, number two in in T20 and fourth in One Day Internationals.