The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) won't immediately take a decision on the extension of contracts for Indian team’s coaching staff - head coach Ravi Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun, batting coach Sanjay Bangar and fielding coach R. Sridhar, who all were discussed at a meeting regarding their respective contracts on Monday. 

Shastri was appointed in his role in 2017 for a two-year period, while Arun, Bangar as well as Sridhar kickstarted their job a week later for the same duration which culminates with this year's ICC Cricket World Cup. Hence, the BCCI and COA have enough time to finalise whether the current coaching set-up will be continued with or not.

"There are still more than four months remaining on the contracts on the support staff, we are in no hurry at the moment. The matter will be discussed in detail in future meetings. We still have more than four months’ time to decide whether to extend the contracts or not," third member of the CoA Lt Gen (retd) Ravi Thodge told CricketNext.

One other matter that got deliberated was Supreme Court’s judgement asking the board to reconsider life-ban enforced over S Sreesanth for his alleged role in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal. The final court of appeal has basically asked the BCCI to revisit their punishment that has been imposed on Sreesanth, something which the newly appointed Ombudsman, Justice D K Jain will now further examine. 

"We have not been given any choice in the matter," Thodge said. "The SC judgement is quite clear. We will be referring the matter to Ombudsman. The new BCCI constitution lays down everything."

"Although the SC order says the matter has to be revisited by the disciplinary committee, according to the new constitution that authority rests with the Ombudsman. It doesn’t mean the matter will be referred to tomorrow. We still have time and it will be done soon."