The stables are being cleaned. Well, not very willingly, but it's going to be a spring-cleaning like no other. The Board of Control for Cricket in India dug its feet in and resisted as hard as possible, but to no avail.

The Supreme Court finally cracked the whip earlier in July and ordered the BCCI to get in line, and giving the governing body six months to implement the majority of the Justice Lodha recommendations.

The recommendations are huge and far-reaching. They affect every aspect of cricket and its administration in India. A detailed explanation of each recommendation can be found here, but it is suffice to say that with the BCCI forced to implement it, heads will roll and Indian cricket will no longer be the same.

Specifically, a few major recommendations will cause the most consternation to the BCCI’s all-powerful office-bearers. These recommendations are: capping the total tenure of office-bearers to nine years of three terms with cooling-off periods in between, keeping an age cap of 70 for a BCCI office-bearer, abolishing the dual post policy which ensures no member can hold a post in both the BCCI and the state association, and withholding ministers and civil servants to be affected.

Once complied it, this could dislodge more than a few powerful men. From the top:

Anurag Thakur

The BCCI president falls foul of quite a few recommendations. He holds dual posts, the post of president as BCCI and also the president of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association. Thakur has been the president of that association for the last nine years. Now, going by the latest regulations, he will be forced to give up at least one of the posts. Considering that he is the president of the BCCI, it's not difficult to guess which chair he will vacate.

Ajay Shirke

The Maharashtra Cricket Association president has already indicated that he would be relinquishing his post at the state level. Shirke has been the president of the MCA for the last nine years and recently became the secretary of the BCCI.

Sourav Ganguly

The Prince of Kolkata has been making waves in cricket administration, but the Lodha recommendations may put him on a sticky wicket. Dada wears many hats, perhaps too many for his own good – he is the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal, a member of the BCCI Working Committee, and also has a place on the Indian Premier League Governing Council. He will need to pick only one of these now, and it will be interesting to see if he chooses to stay put in Kolkata or go for a bigger role at the national level.

Rajeev Shukla

Shukla has been the long-running veteran in the corridors of Indian cricket power, but this time his longevity could come back to bite him. Shukla has been the secretary at the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association for more than ten years since 2005. He’s also been the chairman of the Indian Premier League Governing Council, apart from being a member of the Tour, Program and Fixture Committee.

Sharad Pawar

Sharad Pawar is a former minister, a former BCCI president, and has even been a president of the International Cricket Council but it looks like he finally has to call it a day. The Maharashtra politician announced that he would be stepping down as president of the Mumbai Cricket Association. He probably did not have much choice, considering he's 75, five years above the age cap that had been set by the Justice Lodha panel.

N Srinivasan

Considering that it was N Srinivasan’s stubbornness that led to the creation of the Justice Lodha committee, it’s a little ironic to note that the controversial Tamil Nadu administrator will likely be affected the least, compared to some of the others on this list. In a far cry from when he ruled Indian cricket, Srinivasan will probably only have to give up the post of president of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, because of his age (71).

However that is unlikely to affect him much – Srinivasan is still a sizeable force in Tamil Nadu cricket where there is almost no opposition to him. And considering the turmoil that is likely to sweep through Indian cricket, the former ICC president may look upon this as an opportunity to get back into national reckoning again – though he can't hold a formal post because of his age.

Lalit Modi

Like always, the enigmatic Lalit Modi’s case is a can of worms. The former commissioner of the Indian Premier League, who resides in London and is facing an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate for alleged financial irregularities, is the president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association, a position he has held since 2005.

However, the BCCI suspended the RCA after Modi was elected its president in May 2014, since he had been banned for life by the Indian cricket body. What happens now is anyone’s guess, but there were reports that Modi was planning to install his son instead of himself, which could help evade some of the Lodha recommendations.

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