Justice R M Lodha panel submits its report to the Supreme Court on various aspects of reforms in the BCCI.
SC agrees to hear plea of the Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) seeking the implementation of report of Justice R M Lodha panel.
SC asks BCCI to “fall in line” with Lodha panel recommendations, which suggested a massive restructuring.
SC agrees to hear BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea against the Lodha Committee’s order suspending IPL franchisee Chennai Super Kings for two years.
The Orissa Cricket Association moves SC seeking to be impleaded in hearing related to implementation of Lodha panel recommendation suggesting restructuring of BCCI.
SC pulls up the BCCI over reluctance to accept Lodha panel’s recommendations; questions BCCI over lack of transparency in funds to states.
SC also allays BCCI’s apprehension that it will face ICC’s ire for carrying out drastic restructuring by including CAG nominee saying it does not amount to government interference; questions BCCI for putting spoke in one state-one vote policy.
SC slams BCCI for not checking how hefty sums are being spent, saying it was “practically corrupting” its members by not seeking any explanation.
SC criticises BCCI for maintaining that any judicial interference in its functioning would compromise its autonomy, says sports body was resisting recommendations to reform.
Cricket Club of India (CCI) of Mumbai faces tough questions from SC on its resistance to structural reforms in the BCCI.
SC asks govt whether it can take over cricketing activities by enacting law.
SC pulls up BCCI for “monopolizing” cricket in the country, says several youngsters wanting to be Dhonis and Kohlis are not given equal opportunity.
SC pulls up BCCI, asks if politicians can retire at 70 why not BCCI office bearers.
SC says all state cricket associations have to “fall in line” with recommendations of Justice Lodha panel.
SC says constitution of BCCI is highly incapable of achieving values of transparency, objectivity and accountability which can be attained only by changing it.
BCCI tells SC that betting in cricket matches can be legalised only if a central law is enacted in this regard.
Ex-Indian team captain Bishan Singh Bedi and ex—cricketer Kirti Azad support Lodha panel report in SC.
Reforms in BCCI will not pull the body back, says SC clarifying that it does not intend to reduce popularity of the Board or hinder its growth.
CAB moves SC to stall BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur from contesting election to President’s post, saying a charge-sheeted person cannot contest under Lodha panel suggestions.
Hearings on implementation of Lodha panel report end in SC.
SC accepts major recommendations of Lodha panel on reforms in BCCI including a bar on ministers and civil servants and those above 70 from becoming its members; leaves it to Parliament to decide if it should come under RTI and betting on the game should be legalised.
CAB, KSCA call off elections after the Lodha Committee asks the BCCI to direct all state associations to put their annual elections on hold.
Lodha Committee clarifies that office bearers, across the BCCI and state associations, who have completed nine years in the job cumulatively stand disqualified and cannot contest for another term.
In accordance with the Lodha Committee recommendations, Sharad Pawar announces he will step down as Mumbai Cricket Association president.
BCCI appoints legal panel to liaise with Lodha Committee during the implementation of the report. Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju is appointed head the panel, which also includes BCCI's counsel Abhinav Mukerjee.
Katju terms Supreme Court order "illegal"
Lodha Committee issues first set of timelines and BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke says the board will abide by the timelines set by the Committee. He also states that the board has already begun implementing reforms. The deadline for the first phase is September 30.
BCCI announce AGM on September 21. Lodha Committee says the AGM is "meaningless" unless the BCCI implements the recommendations.
The Lodha Committee withdraws its recommendation to have nominees of two franchises sit on the IPL Governing Council on a rotational basis. The BCCI had earlier pointed out that this move could lead to conflict of interest, which the Court said was "evident".
The Lodha Panel directs the BCCI to hold elections for the Apex Council - to replace the board's highest-decision making body, the working committee - and conduct its AGM by December 15. The BCCI also has to form a fresh IPL governing council by December 30.
ICC refuses to get involved in BCCI-Lodha tussle.
BCCI defies Lodha Committee, picks 5-member selection panel as opposed to a three-member panel recommended by the Committee.
The Lodha Committee's status report to the Supreme Court says that the BCCI has created "serious impediments" in the implementation of reforms and recommends that all existing office-bearers of the board be replaced by a caretaker panel of administrators.
Chief Justice of India TS Thakur warns the board to implement the recommendations.
The BCCI files new application, pleading for the Court's July 18 order to be suspended until the Court hears the board's review and curative petitions against the mandatory implementation of most of the recommendations.
BCCI misses first Lodha deadline of September 30, and fails to adopt the Memorandum of Association and Rules and Regulations at its SGM, which would trigger the implementation of the Lodha recommendations. But, the Tripura Cricket Association and the Vidarbha Cricket Association, unanimously adopt the reforms. The board SGM is pushed to October 1.
The BCCI agrees to implement important recommendations at the AGM, but key reforms - age restriction of 70 years for board officials, the tenure cap of nine years with cooling-off periods, and the one-state-one-vote policy, among others - are not adopted.
Lodha Committee asks banks to halt two BCCI transactions and not to disburse funds from the BCCI accounts to the state associations with regard to two financial decisions taken at the board's emergent working committee meeting on September 30.
The Supreme Court asks the BCCI to submit an undertaking that it will "unconditionally" implement all the court-approved recommendations of the Lodha Committee by October 7. CJI Justice Thakur as states that if the board fails to do so, its office bearers could be replaced with a panel of administrators.