CAB likely to postpone AGM following SC verdict on Lodha committee report

THE 85TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) scheduled to be held on July 31 might be postponed following the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Lodha committee report. 

Sources had reported that the former India skipper Sourav Ganguly, who is the president of CAB, is likely to be re-elected in the upcoming AGM. The Prince of Kolkata is said to have taken advice from the board’s former legal advisor Usha Nath Banerjee. 

As reported by cricbuzz, Ganguly said,

"We are taking legal advice. The process (to implement the recommendations) may take some time."

Referring to the panel’s order to debar people above 70 from becoming office-bearers, CAB treasurer Biswarup Dey said that he hoped for a reconsideration of the verdict. Dey contended, 

“Other sports bodies can have administrators above the age of 70, then why this rule for cricket. CAB has a lot of people above 70 who can run the organisation well, but it will be a problem for them too. The Supreme Court has given its verdict and the BCCI and the state associations should follow it. But it can lead to problems in the BCCI, I hope they will reconsider it."