In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) has relaxed the one-year rule for wards of government employees to be considered local players. Henceforth, children of government employees on transfer are eligible to play as local players on submission of the parent’s transfer order and the Aadhaar card of the player with the new address. The CoA has taken the decision without consulting the BCCI technical committee.
In the past, the Indian cricket board considered a player as a local one only after a year’s stay in the new state when they provided any government document registered a year ago. However, according to an email communication to all state associations on October 13, the CoA has decided to relax rules for wards of government employees.
Board general manager (cricket operations) Saba Karim wrote, “Under the instructions of the CoA, the BCCI, from this season onwards, has decided to relax the one-year rule laid down by the BCCI for a cricketer to be considered as a local player. Hence wards of government employees on transfer are eligible to play as a local player of that association, where the government employee has been transferred/posted subject to submission of parent’s transfer order and the Aadhaar card of the player bearing the new address.”
Karim further wrote, “The additional qualification rule will be considered, only if that particular player’s parent(s) are transferred on a government job of that Association the players intend to play in particular season.”
