BCCI’S reluctance to  embrace reforms

The BCCI’s opposition to the reform package was so severe that it forced the bench, in its hearing of April 2016, to ask the then attorney representing the BCCI if ‘the BCCI was refusingto reform’. The BCCI maintained that it was a private body which could arrange its matters in any way it deemed fit and that memberships were part of internal management.

With all the annoyance displayed by the Court in its last three hearings, the BCCI still had not considered it prudent to withdraw from its arrogant and aggressive stand and accept the reform package, seeking maybe one or two modifications to its earlier judgment (which the Court might have permitted). All cricket enthusiasts and followers of the game have wondered at the magnetic forces that compel people to stick to power.