Lodha reforms: How Indian cricket will never be the same again

The Board of Control for Cricket in India's headquarters in the city. Pic/mid-day archives

One state, one vote: Only one association can represent the state and would have voting rights as full members of the Board. Any other existing members would be associate members.
Supreme Court Ruling: Units can take turns to be full members.
Impact: Units in Maharashtra and Gujarat do not affect the players. Just the powers that be lose the sting!

The Board of Control for Cricket in India's headquarters in the city. Pic/mid-day archives

Non state units: Services, Railways and Universities, CCI, NCC, all earlier full members, will now become associate members.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Institutions were effectively government votes, so they go.

No minister, no government servant: A person can be disqualified from being an office-bearer if he or she is a minister or govt servant.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Affects all aspiring netas and babus.

No one above 70: No office-bearer can be above the age of 70
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Affects a number of regional leaders like Niranjan Shah (Saurashtra), Sharad Pawar (Mumbai), N Srinivasan (Tamil Nadu), Farooq Abdullah (J&K) among a host of others

Limited tenure: All existing office-bearers are retained, the number of vice-presidents to be down from five to one. The terms of office-bearers continue to be of three years, but with a limit of three terms, with a cooling-off period after each term.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Affects all the BCCI officials.

Governance structure: The governance of the BCCI to be decentralised. President has to be chosen from full members and will have no casting vote.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Affects all aspiring BCCI president.

Apex Council: Working committee to be replaced by a nine-member Apex Council consisting of BCCI office-bearers, an elected representative of the general body, two representatives of the players association (one man and one woman) and one nominee from the C&AG's office.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Alters BCCI power equations.

One man, one post: Officials cannot hold office both at the BCCI and in the state associations. The chosen one will have to vacate post in the state when elected to the BCCI.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Affects all current office-bearers.

Conflict of interest: Norms to determine conflict-direct or indirect, pecuniary or other conflict or appearance thereof in the discharge of the functions. This will be administered by an Ethics Officer.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Still in process.

Professionalism: Professionalism is to be brought in by appointing a CEO.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: BCCI has already appointed a CEO and CFO.

Special appointments: Provision to appoint an independent ombudsman and an independent electoral officer.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: BCCI has already appointed an independent ombudsman.

Transparency: The committee recommended that BCCI be brought within the purview of the Right to Information Act.
SC Ruling: Upto Parliament to take a call.
Impact: A similar move in the past was quietly buried, could change now.

Oversight: An independent auditor to verify how the full members have expended the grants given to them by the BCCI.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Already set in motion by the BCCI.

Selection committee: Three-member selection committees to be appointed with the senior-most being named chairman. For national squad, only former international cricketers to be named selectors. The president will not have a say in selections.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Will rule out a number of top non-Test selectors (for e.g: Raj Singh Dungarpur, Sanjay Jagdale).

IPL Governing Council: The IPL governing council to have nine members, comprising of three ex-officio members (the secretary, the treasurer and the CEO of BCCI), two representatives to be elected by the general body, two nominees of the franchisees, one nominee being the C&AG's councillor on the Apex Council and one being a nominee of the Players' Association.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Brings more balance to the panel, but won't the presence of franchisee representatives create conflict of interest?

Zones: The zones would be relevant only for the purpose of the tournaments conducted amongst themselves, but not for nomination to the governance of the Board or to the various standing committees.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: The end of zonal politics as we have known for ages, but cricket stopped being played regionally few years ago.

Players' Association: A Cricket Players' Association with membership for all international and most first-class male/female retired cricketers, to be run with the financial support of the BCCI.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Greater say for players in running affairs.

Players' agents: Player agents to be registered under prescribed norms administered by the BCCI and
the Cricket Players' Association.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Regulates the business of player management.

State associations: Major reforms on tenure, membership and management, ending the culture of proxy voting to be implemented by the states.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Rot setting in at the state level needed a shake-up, comes at the right time.

Facilities: Each state to have as many cricket playing grounds and fields as possible. Specific provisions to be made to encourage cricket for women and the differently-abled.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Already set in motion by the BCCI.

Larger role: BCCI must make existing stadia available for other sports by providing astroturf for hockey, carpet for tennis to be laid, so that income may be
generated.
SC Ruling: Recommendation stays.
Impact: Yet to be explored, but could potentially be a income generation model.

Commercial breaks: BCCI has to ensure that ad breaks are only taken during drinks, lunch and tea during a broadcast. The entire space of the screen during the broadcast to be dedicated to the display of the game, except for a small sponsor logo or sign.
SC Ruling: Recommendation not accepted.
Impact: Saves BCCI and broadcaster of loss of revenue.

Betting & match-fixing: Legalise betting.
SC Ruling: Upto Parliament to decide.
Impact: Will be a tough one to achieve.