MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Cricket Association, in deep debt, has decided to felicitate its past cricketers and also splurge on district representatives’ stay during the first-ever Test match in Pune between India and Australia from February 23.
Consequent to this a senior member, Madhav Ranade, has written to the Cricket Board’s (BCCI) Committee of Administrators’ head Vinod Rai objecting to these expenditure, that includes hospitality passes to be distributed to the district representatives to watch the match, as “wasteful”, according to sources.
He has also charged that these decisions were taken at the MCA’s managing committee meeting, called by its secretary which itself was not as per rules as all those members who had been disqualified by the Supreme Court’s judgment based on Justice Lodha reforms were present.
Saying that MCA was “disregarding the Lodha reforms” and was also “Not ready to follow the Supreme Court’s order”, Ranade has expressed his hope that there would be some clarity after the COA’s meeting on Friday.
He has also asked for an administrator to be appointed for the conduct of the match as he fears costs for the Test match will spiral uncontrollably.
He has also stated that the current members listen only to disqualified former BCCI secretary and MCA president, Ajay Shirke.