The Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed by the Supreme Court reiterated its position to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday midnight that there was no need for a notice to be sent to the International Cricket Council (ICC) seeking remedial measures for the breach of the Members Participation Agreement (MPA) caused at the ICC Board meeting n Dubai on April 26.
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The MPA is a 63-page document binding upon the ICC to fulfil certain obligations to the crickets Boards of India, Australia and England. More significantly, the MPA gives the freedom to the three Boards to terminate the agreement and make itself not available for the ICC events from 2017 to 2023. The MPA was created in 2014 when N. Srinivasan was the ICC Chairman, Cricket Australia was represented by Wall Edwards and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) was represented by Giles Clarke.
Charging the ICC of violating the MPA, as a consequence of adopting a new administrative structure and financial models, the BCCI has taken a strident stand and threatened to terminate the MPA. It mustered support from 23 full members to send a notice to the ICC on Thursday morning, but the CoA, stating its right to “supervise and control the management and administration of the BCCI’’, put its foot down saying that only the SGM convened on May 7 has to consider the outcome of the ICC meetings.
The BCCI Jt. Secretary Amitabh Choudhary explained the Board’s version (see full letter below) and impressed upon the CoA the need to send a notice to the ICC. In its response mailed around midnight on Thursday, the CoA conveyed to the BCCI that its doesn’t feel the need to change its opinion on the matter.
The letter from Amitabh Choudhary, Jt. Secretary to the CoA, sent late evening on Thursday
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