BCCI to change its name?

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), one of the richest sports bodies in the world, could soon change its name.The new name, in fact, could be decided by all the cricket fans of the country in a poll on the BCCI website.

The revolutionary proposal to change the name of the Board, which was launched back in 1928, was floated by Anurag Thakur, the BCCI president, at the Board's Working Committee meeting on Friday (June 24).

"Yes, I had put forward this idea in the meeting today," Thakur told the Times of India. I think the word 'Control' should be replaced by 'Care'.

"We want to do away with the word 'Control.' We want to care for our fans, players, coaches, selectors, administrators and all the other stakeholders who matter in cricket."

The proposal met with a positive response from some Board members, while there were a few other old-time members who seemed a bit resistant to the idea of changing the name of an organisation which has existed for 88 years now. The matter is set to be discussed in the future in the next board meetings.

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