Acutely aware of the perceived challenge to their authority
by the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL), which is luring young domestic cricketers
into its fold, the bigwigs of the Cricket Board are girding their loins to meet
it head-on.
Today's late evening meeting of the BCCI's office bearers headed by president
Sharad Pawar followed by tomorrow's Working Committee meeting and two special
AGMs convened to amend some clauses of its memorandum of rules and regulations
have thus assumed enormous signifance.
A direct confrontation between the Essel Group-floated League,
which has already roped in India's lone World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev
and West Indian legend Brian Lara, and the BCCI is on the cards with
the ICL set to announce later in the day names of the players who have joined
it.
It would be interesting to see the manner in which BCCI decides
to deal with Kapil Dev, still the head of its National Cricket Academy, as well
as other current players, who have joined the rebel organisation.
The ICL and the legal ramifications of any action, including
a ban, on those who have joined it would dominate the discussions at the meeting
of the BCCI's Working Committee tomorrow morning.
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