Sourav Ganguly, Jay Shah to continue after SC pushes hearing in BCCI matter to January

The hearing was significant in deciding whether they'll be amendments made to board's constitution.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah will continue in their posts as the Supreme Court on Wednesday (December 9) pushed an important hearing for the proposed amendments to Indian board's constitution to January third week. 

According to the last year's adopted BCCI constitution, the terms of both Ganguly and Shah are over. But the board had sought amendments to the consitution with the SC, country's highest court of law, which would then allow the concerned duo to stay on longer. 

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Ganguly and Shah are now likely to continue till a final verdict is out with the SC postponing the latest hearing on the issue. 

The court has come across several grievances put forward by the BCCI and its state associations since the new constitution has come into being. The apex body in March 2019 appointed PS Narasimha as the amicus curiae to mediate some of those disputes. 

"On Wednesday, the SC had asked the amicus curiae PS Narasimha to compartmentalize the various Interlocutory Applications (IAs) related to the BCCI and proceeded to deal with them in a phased manner," reported Cricbuzz. 

"Subsequently the recommendations from the amicus curiae were that 25 such IAs could 'be disposed off with a liberty to avail appropriate remedies'. There were 35 IAs that were deemed infructuous or not relevant anymore while 28 IAs were 'successfully mediated' by the amicus Curiae."

"However, 14 further IAs that needed contesting including ones with regards to the right to form association and the ones seeking key changes/clarifications to the constitution pertaining to the cooling off period for administrators were pushed to the third week of January. The Supreme Court is set to go on its winter vacation from December 18."

Narasimha spoke to IANS on the matter and said, "A substantial number of applications were disposed by the court today. A large number of cases that were related to funds have become infructuous while the court said that in the state cricket associations where the amicus curiae (Narasimha) had successfully mediated and helped their hold elections, like Karnataka, were also disposed of."

"Only some cases remain, and the court asked these to be listed in the third week of January. The BCCI application seeking amendments to its constitution was not taken up today."