Mumbai, Saurashtra will be able to vote on rotational basis: BCCIs' Committee of Administrators

The cricket associations belonging to states with more than one member will get a chance to vote at the Annual General Meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India on a rotational basis, the Committee of Administrators clarified on Wednesday.

The Committee of Administrators, led by former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai, reiterated that states with multiple existing members would see rights and privileges of a full member rotate annually among them. The CoA was reacting to media reports which claimed that state bodies such as the Mumbai Cricket Association and the Saurashtra Cricket Association had lost their full-member status.

“Only one of them will exercise the rights and privileges of a Full Member at any given point of time,” the CoA said in a statement. “The rotation shall be as per the policy framed by the BCCI.” According to the BCCI’s constitution the full membership in Maharashtra and Gujarat is to rotate annually between the three existing full members from each of those states.

“Accordingly, Mumbai Cricket Association, Maharashtra Cricket Association and Vidarbha Cricket Association (not necessarily in that order) will get to vote by annual rotation from the state of Maharashtra,” the CoA said. “Similarly, Gujarat Cricket Association, Saurashtra Cricket Association and Baroda Cricket Association (not necessarily in that order) will get to vote by annual rotation from the state of Gujarat. Maharashtra and Gujarat are also exceptions to the general principle that one association will have jurisdiction over the entire state.”