BCCI forms legal panel to interact with the Lodha Committee

The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Tuesday (August 2) formed a new legal panel which will serve as a medium to interact with the Lodha Committee. The panel will be headed by former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju and will have three other counsels including BCCI's counsel Abhinav Mukerjee.

According to a press release from BCCI, the board members decided to form the panel during the Working Committee meeting at the Cricket Centre in Mumbai, since the Lodha Panel's recommendations 'were complex and would involve large-scale changes to be implemented across the board.'
 
Last month, the Supreme Court accepted most of the recommendations made by the Lodha Panel and gave the board a six-month deadline to implement the reforms. With BCCI President Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke set to meet the Lodha committee members on August 9 in New Delhi, this newly formed panel will 'advise and guide' the board.