Ravi Shastri Has To Be Re-Appointed As Head Coach If Ethics Officer Finds CAC Conflicted

Coach Shastri might face the embarrassment of needing to be re-appointed as India Men's cricket team head coach if BCCI Ethics Officer finds CAC guilty of conflict

The three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Kapil Dev, Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy re-appointed Ravi Shastri as Team India’s head coach till November 24, 2021. Reportedly, the trio took this decision 'unanimously' after interviewing candidates for the entire day. In a major twist, coach Shastri might face the embarrassment of needing to be re-appointed as India Men's cricket team head coach if BCCI Ethics Officer D.K. Jain finds CAC guilty of conflict. MPCA life member Sanjeev Gupta had alleged that the CAC panel compromising of Kapil Dev, Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy, is conflicted as per the Lodha Panel's proposal of one man, one post. Following Gupta's allegation, the Ethics Officer sent notices to the three on Saturday and has asked them to reply by October 10. "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. 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 board functionary told IANS. The board functionary also said that the same could also hold true for women's team coach W.V. Raman. "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. 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," the board functionary said.