BCCI AGM to be held in Mumbai on October 18: Report

The Annual General Meeting AGM of the Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI will be held on October 18 in Mumbai a notification sent to State associations by Jay Shah secretary of t he Indian cricket board confirmed on ThursdayWomens IPL which has been in the pipeline for almost a year and the BCCI is all set to start it next year is one of the important items on the agenda of the AGMAccording to the Cricbuzz report the first edition could be in March and the BCCI is expected to issue tenders for the media rights and sale of franchises The league is likely to be a sixteam affair but modalities and the final decision are expected at the AGMTo update on womens IPL read a threepage notice sent to statesAmong many other items of the notice election to the officebearers president vicepresident secretary joint secretary and treasurer is the biggest one There is still no clarity on who will be the final set of officebearers of the BCCI but the current lot barring one exception is expected to be reelectedAppointment of Ombudsman and Ethics officer appointment of Cricket Committee and Standing Committee and appointment of Umpires Committee are the other key points on the agenda Another important part of discussion is about the representation to ICCTo appoint the BCCIs representative or representatives on the International Cricket Council ICC and or any similar organisation reads Item R of the noticeAlso ReadWe deserve much more from BCCIThere has been hot discussion on who will be the BCCI representative at ICC Since N Srinivasan is no longer a contender it will be interesting to see who will get the nod Currently both president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah are the nominated representatives to the ICCThe next two items S amp T are To update on ICC matters and To update on ICC tax mattersThese are important issues considering that the ICC is expecting tax relief for the 2023 World Cup and subsequent three other events in 2026 2029 and 2031 Besides the BCCI also will have to decide if it will field a candidate for the ICC chairman positionSome other points of the agenda are update on the National Cricket Academy Matters update on infrastructure development initiatives undertaken by the BCCI in the NorthEastern region update on Indias Future Tours Programme update on the concluded IPL Media Rights and the upcoming BCCI Media Rights update on revised infrastructure Subsidy PolicyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever