No IPL opening ceremony this year: CoA

February 22, 2019 9:13 PM

No IPL opening ceremony this year: CoA

The IPL will not have an opening ceremony this year after the Committee of Administrators (CoA) running Indian cricket on Friday decided to allocate the money to the families of the CRPF personnel killed in the Pulwama terror attack. Committee of Administrators chairman Vinod Rai said they will not have any inaugural function for the IPL and the money budgeted for that goes to the martyrs' families.  It is learnt that 2018 IPL opening ceremony's budget was in the tune of 15 cro...

COA declares BCCI Special General Meeting invalid

June 28, 2018 7:55 PM

COA declares BCCI Special General Meeting invalid

The Committee of Administrators (COA) today declared the Special General Meeting, SGM held by the Board of Control for Cricket last Friday as invalid.  The Supreme Court-appointed panel said, the meeting was convened and held in violation of the directions issued by the COA on 15th of March this year.  The COA instructed the board officials not to implement the resolutions passed in the June 22nd meeting.  In the SGM, the Board's general body had cleared the central contracts of the Ind...