Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul have tendered “unconditional apology” to the fresh show-cause notices sent to them by the Committee of Administrators (CoA), a BCCI official said. However, the suspended players’ integration into the Indian team still appears some way off, with CoA member Diana Edulji in favour of an inquiry thorough an ombudsman, dittoed by the cricket board members.
With CoA head Vinod Rai and Committee member Edulji in disagreement over the inquiry process, 10 state associations on Monday urged that the acting BCCI president CK Khanna direct acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary to convene a general body meeting (emergent) on a 10-day notice to appoint an ombudsman, who will conduct the inquiry. Edulji, on the other hand, suggested that the ombudsman be appointed through court.
Rai had said that if the CoA, along with the acting secretary, conducts the inquiry process of the two players, he wouldn’t be part of it. “The (BCCI) constitution doesn’t allow it.”
