The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary has refused to sign on the appointment letter of newly-appointed general manager (marketing) Priya Gupta. On Thursday, Chaudhary questioned Gupta’s lack of experience in handling such a high-profile job. Choudhary even sent an email to CEO Rahul Johri in which he reiterated that this particular position was not even recommended by the Justice Lodha panel. “It is now well accepted that one of the basic reasons for the constitution of the Lodha panel was to bring in greater transparency in the affairs of the BCCI. Choudhary has also hit out at the COA for the procedures followed to recruit the agency and alleges that even before it came on board to assist the BCCI, it was short-listing the candidates for the GM (marketing).

Source: dna March 23, 2018 00:50 UTC