Vikrm Limaye's exit big loss to COA: Edulji
Limaye will hold his position till July 14, when the Supreme Court reopens, after which he will have to step down for his new assignment at the NSE.
New Delhi: Veteran banker Vikram Limaye will soon leave the cricket control board’s Committee of Administrators to head the National Stock Exchange which will a big loss to the already trimmed panel, said COA member Diana Edulji.
“It will be a big loss. His inputs have been excellent in all the meetings. He has been a big help in financial dealings,” Edulji said on Tuesday.
“Even when he represented BCCI at the ICC meet in February, he got a grasp of the subject real quick,” she added.
Limaye will hold his position till July 14, when the Supreme Court reopens, after which he will have to step down for his new assignment at the NSE.
With Limaye’s departure, the COA will shrink from having four members to two.
Historian Ramachandra Guha was the first to quit, alleging that the CoA had not done enough to implement the Lodha Committee reforms mandated by the Supreme Court.
The Vinod Rai-led CoA next meets on June 24 in Mumbai, ahead of the BCCI special general meeting on June 26.
The CoA, assigned by the Supreme Court to carry out reforms recommended by the Lodha panel, has also sent an amended version of the constitution to all state cricket associations and the matter will be tabled at the SGM.
Meanwhile, after its initial reluctance, the BCCI has accepted the CoA’s decision to give one-time benefit of '35 lakh to 13 former cricketers, including Atul Wassan and Lalchand Rajput, who have played between one and nine Tests for India after 1970.