Vinod Rai: I don't see a place for COA in BCCI down the road

Vinod Rai is confident that his team could transform the 'personality oriented' BCCI into a 'structured' institution by October, a deadline he has set for COA to complete their assignment of implementing the RM Lodha Committee reforms

Vinod Rai

Vinod Rai is confident that his team could transform the 'personality oriented' BCCI into a 'structured' institution by October, a deadline he has set for COA to complete their assignment of implementing the RM Lodha Committee reforms.

"It is still a long haul, but that ends in October," Rai told ESPNcricinfo, after the committee completed 100 days in the job.

"I am very realistic, because I don't see a place for the COA in the BCCI in the long term. We want to provide a structure to the BCCI. It does not have one right now. It is run by individual styles. It is personality-oriented. We will put a structure in place and ensure that there are systems that will make this structure work."

Rai said that co-operation and discussion is the way forward as that can only convince the Supreme Court about one or two reforms which does look practically unimplementable.

"Each one of them has a viewpoint and all of them have filed cases against the recommendations," Rai said.

"I told them one fine day the court might wake up and throw every objection out and just say, 'You don't want to convene the AGM? Okay, (new) constitution is adopted. Full stop.' Then they are stuck," Rai said.

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