In a major turn of events, Ravi Shastri will have to be reappointed again as India's head coach if the BCCI Ethics Officer D.K. Jain finds the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Kapil Dev, Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy guilty of conflict.

CAC just recently reinstated Shastri as head coach until 2021. 

Retired justice Jain sent notices to the three-member panel on Saturday (September 28) seeking a reply on the matter by October 10 after MPCA life member Sanjeev Gupta alleged that the trio is conflicted as per the Lodha Panel’s proposal of one man, one post.

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If Jain finds the CAC members to have breached the conflict of interest law, a board functionary said, it would unnecessarily have to face the embarrassment of undergoing the process of appointing Shastri again. 

"The appointment of Shastri as the head coach will obviously have to be done once again if the committee members who appointed him are found to have conflict of interest," the functionary told IANS. 

"A new committee will then have to be formed and the whole process has to be re-opened and re-done keeping the newly registered BCCI constitution in mind as the constitution now clearly says that only a CAC can appoint the head coach of the Indian team."

A notice was also sent to Jain regarding the appointment of W.V. Raman as Indian women's team coach. It is learnt that the Committee of Administrators (CoA) was divided on the trio of Dev, Gaekwad and Rangaswamy forming an ad-hoc committee to pick him as the coach.

"One needs to see what Jain’s verdict is in the Raman matter because in that case also, the same trio as ad-hoc CAC had appointed him as coach even as the two-member CoA was divided," the functionary said. 

"Back then, it was a 1:1 verdict with Vinod Rai agreeing to the trio appointing the coach and Diana Edulji making it clear that there was no place for an ad-hoc CAC in the BCCI constitution that was reworked as per the proposals of the Lodha Panel."

(Inputs from IANS)