Sources have stated that the media session with the BCCI president Anurag Thakur and CEO Rahul Johri was unusually lengthy, lasting nearly 40 minutes including a neat power point presentation of the new bidding process by Johri and it has turned out to be another dais for Thakur to defend and justify the recent spate of outbursts at the ICC, and specifically its chairman Shashank Manohar.
It was stated that the ICC topic, in fact, has seemed to banish all the jet lag he had accumulated in the 16-hour flight from Washington, where he was part of a delegation of Indian MPs who had gone to meet their American counterparts.
Meanwhile, the BCCI and its president are fighting battles on their home turf as well, especially in dealing with the Lodha committee recommendations, some of which had asphyxiated the board and though the BCCI has been vehemently opposed several of their recommendations, they have been prompted to toe the line on several others.
He has said anyway they have been unable to visit the state association offices or BCCI headquarters, where most of the meetings were held in five star hotels. But the domestic season is about to start, and he would request them to come and watch a few matches to see how well the BCCI is organizing the biggest domestic tournament in the world.
