‘Fifteen days is a very long time’: BCCI performs wait-and-watch on Ajit Agarkar’s future

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Devajit Saikia on Friday supplied no clear solutions on the way forward for males’s choice committee chief Ajit Agarkar however mentioned that “15 days is a very long time within the globe of cricket.”“We nonetheless have fifteen days to go. Fifteen days is a very long time within the globe of cricket. We will take a call in acceptable time and we’ll let you understand about it. Today, there was no dialogue on any particular person,” Saikia mentioned after the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting on the BCCI headquarters.This comes after BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla mentioned earlier within the day that the board has authorised its office-bearers to take a call on the way forward for the boys’s senior choice committee headed by Ajit Agarkar.“Arun Singh Dhumal, Majumdar retain IPL governing council posts; AGM authorises office-bearers to take a call on selectors,” Shukla mentioned after attending the assembly on the BCCI headquarters.BCCI president Mithun Manhas, vice-president Rajeev Shukla, secretary Devajit Saikia, Bengal Cricket Association president Sourav Ganguly, and Jharkhand State Cricket Association secretary Saurabh Tiwary have been among the many officers current on the AGM.Agarkar was appointed chairman of the boys’s senior choice committee in July 2023, and his contract is scheduled to finish subsequent month.Meanwhile, Saikia additionally mentioned the BCCI has begun appointing a brand new five-member junior choice committee. “We have acquired a really massive variety of candidates, so we’re shortlisting it, and as soon as the shortlisting is accomplished, then we’ll give it to our cricket committee, who would be the competent authority to pick out the selectors for the junior choice committee, in order that course of is happening, and we are attempting to finish it inside the subsequent 10-15 days time, to represent the junior choice committee, as a result of all 5 selectors’ tenure goes to be over very quickly,” Saikia mentioned.‘Lot of time & processes for BCCI to return below Sports Act’Saikia clarified that there was loads of time earlier than the BCCI would come below the National Sports Governance (NSG) Act. The Supreme Court lately requested the BCCI and its state associations to make clear their place following a number of litigations involving varied associations both for minor adjustments of their structure or disputes arising from factionalism.Saikia clarified that the BCCI was not averse to coming below the brand new Sports Act, offered the federal government completes a couple of processes.“So, concerning the Sports Act, our stand could be very clear. There are lots of issues that are but to be carried out by the involved authority; as soon as these workout routines are accomplished, and as soon as BCCI comes below the Sports Act, a selected notification needs to be issued to make it a delegated sport. Till that point, we aren’t speculated to do something. Whenever that notification comes, we’ll instantly spring into motion. We will then do our work as per the brand new sports activities guidelines,” Saikia mentioned.“We are paying Rs 3,000 crore tax yearly to the federal government. Unlike different sports activities federations, we do not take any authorities funding. Hence, cricket can’t be handled as a ‘designated sport’ below the National Sports Governance Act 2025,” Saikia identified.Promotion & relegation launched for home umpiresSaikia mentioned that the BCCI will introduce a system of promotion and relegation for umpires in home cricket, with 10 umpires being promoted and 10 relegated after each season.“All the umpires’ postings will likely be as per benefit. We have an assessing group below the umpires’ board. They will likely be given assignments in keeping with their benefit – whether or not it’s knockouts or necessary video games. After each season, there will likely be a system of relegation and upgradation. Ten umpires on the finish of each season will likely be promoted, and ten will likely be relegated. This will make them very alert all through the season, and that may in the end assist the sport of cricket as a result of some gamers’ futures depend upon choices of the umpires. They need to be very competent and alert,” he said.As reported by TOI on Friday, Saikia confirmed that the BCCI had determined to extend the pay of home match referees and umpires from the upcoming season. “There was no revision of charges of the umpires for nearly ten years from 2017-18. Earlier there have been 4 classes – A+, A, B, C; now we have now restricted it to A, B, C, D. Their per-day charges have been enhanced considerably. We have additionally enhanced the payment construction of the match referees,” Saikia mentioned.‘IPL to start out from final week of March’Saikia revealed that “IPL-2027 will begin from the final week of March.” He mentioned that the BCCI has grand plans to rejoice its one centesimal anniversary (in 2028) and the IPL’s twentieth anniversary subsequent yr. “In Dec 2028, we’ll full 100 years of the BCCI, so we’ll do centenary celebrations from Dec 2027 for one yr. The IPL, which is able to begin from March subsequent yr, may have its twentieth version. We have mentioned that it must be carried out in a grand approach. We have additionally seen a presentation (on it) after the AGM,” Saikia mentioned.Saikia additionally knowledgeable that Shubhadeep Ghosh, who’s India’s fielding coach, has been appointed on a short-term foundation.BGT Test on in RanchiMeanwhile, former India batter Saurabh Tiwary, at the moment the secretary of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA), rubbished stories of Ranchi being changed as a venue for subsequent yr’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy as a consequence of poor climate circumstances. The marquee five-Test collection will start on Jan 21 in Nagpur, with Chennai, Guwahati, Ranchi and Ahmedabad internet hosting the opposite 4 Tests.“There is not any change within the venue. If anyone has to put in writing to the BCCI about it, it must be me and I’ve not written it,” Tiwary advised the media.“There are six to seven months left (for the Ranchi Test). We haven’t any such request or proposal that there are some points concerning the Ranchi Test,” Saikia mentioned.