Rajeev Shukla

Board of Control for Cricket in India

Sourav Ganguly

Mumbai Cricket Association

Rahul Johri

International Cricket Council

has been disqualified from attending the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the(BCCI) to be held on October 23.Yesterday, the BCCI electoral officer decreed that the former IPL chairman cannot be part of the AGM which will also see the election to the BCCI.The development comes as a severe setback for Shukla, who was tipped to get an important position after the election.He has now not only been barred from attending the AGM but also disallowed to send a replacement candidate to represent the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA).The main ground for his disqualification is that he must cool off for three years for having been the IPL chairman for three years.“Nominee not eligible under Rule 6(4) of the UPCA constitution read with Rule 3(b)(1)(vi) and Rule 6(4) of the BCCI constitution, having not completed cooling off period,” the electoral officer said of Shukla.Apart from Shukla and the UPCA, seven other associations have been disqualified.Three of them are Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Maharashtra.The other four are Mizoram and three government units – Railways, Universities and Services.According to the electoral officer, the three government units have been found non-compliant as there was no nomination from the association of former players.Following the decision of election officer N Gopalaswmi, 30 association representatives have qualified to be part of the AGM.Among them are Brijesh Patel of Karnataka, Rajat Sharma of Delhi andof Bengal.There was a complaint against Sanjay Naik, the newly-elected secretary of the(MCA), but the electoral officer felt that the complaints against Naik did not reveal all the facts.Naik was eventually cleared to represent the MCA.The barred state units are expected to appeal before the Supreme Court on Monday, if not on Friday itself.Meanwhile, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) has nominated CEOfor the(ICC) meeting in Dubai from October 12.He replaces Amitabh Choudhary, the acting secretary, who has been stopped from representing the BCCI following his failure to attend a couple of meetings in the past.However, it has been learnt that some representation had gone to the ICC to send the tickets to Choudhary and not to honour the CoA decision.But the ICC is understood to be going by the book and would allow only the CoA-nominated person.The ICC will consider recalling Zimbabwe back into the international fold, among other things, at the threeday meeting in Dubai.