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CoA has become a laughing stock: Vengsarkar

by Gaurav Gupta • Last updated on

The CoA has now been reduced to two members - Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji © Getty

The open war between the two members of the Committee of Administrators (CoA), Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji, which intensified on Tuesday (December 12) after an exchange of mails between them were made public over a difference of opinion on the issue of the appointment of the India women's team coach, has increased the chaos in Indian cricket administration.

The deteriorating state of affairs, particularly after the CoA took charge, is now beginning to bother Indian cricket greats.

On Wednesday, ex-India skipper, Dilip Vengsarkar came down heavily on the way CoA has gone about running the show. "The happenings in the BCCI are a concern to former cricketers like us. The appointment and sacking of the national teams' coaches shows that the administration in the Board is in a complete mess, and so is Indian cricket right now. The way it has handled things, the CoA has become a laughing stock," Vengsarkar told TOI.

In October, ex-India captain Sourav Ganguly, too, had criticised the functioning of the Supreme Court-appointed body.

The exchange of mails between Edulji, a former India women's team captain, and Rai, the CoA chief, also revealed that the BCCI had sacked leg-spin great Anil Kumble and replaced him with Ravi Shastri as the India coach purely at the behest of captain Virat Kohli last year.

"I really don't know what's happening. Does it come under the CoA jurisdiction to appoint or sack coaches? I feel it's wrong to sack a coach because the captain is saying something against the coach, and also incorrect to hire a coach because the skipper desires so. It should be totally an administrative decision. I can't understand how the players come into the picture in this matter," Vengsarkar felt.

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