Mumbai, July 23:
The Mumbai Cricket Association has changed its eligibility rules for contesting its forthcoming elections, a move which is widely seen to prevent senior administrator Prof Ratnakar Shetty from regaining his place in its managing committee.
The managing committee of MCA, at its meeting last night, has taken a decision that debars anyone who is a paid employee of its parent body Cricket Board, including the National Cricket Academy, and coaches or employees of various IPL franchisees, from the elections, a top source said today.
“The decision to debar such persons from contesting the elections has been taken. As for the date of the elections it will be decided once the hearing on the court case filed by Prof Shetty, which is coming up tomorrow, is over,” the source said.
Shetty, who is employed by the BCCI as its general manager (game development), has filed a case against MCA’s earlier decision to ban him for five years from all the association’s activities, after he had raised the possibility of some office bearers having sold tickets of the T20 International between India and Pakistan at Ahmedabad in December last in the black market.(PTI)
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