No place for OCA in BCCI committees

Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) suffered a major humiliation yeasterday as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chose not to include the state body or any of its representative in any of the new committees for the year 2009-10. The following committees were constituted in the 80th Annual General Meeting of the BCCI at the Cricket Centre in Mumbai. WORKING COMMITTEE: Shashank Manohar (president), N Srinivasan (secretary), Sanjay Jagdale (joint-secretary), M P Pandove (treasurer), Arun Jaitley, N Shivlal Yadav, Arindam Ganguly, Chirayu Amin, Lalit Modi (All vice-presidents), Delhi & District Cricket Association, Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, Cricket Association of Bengal, Mumbai Cricket Association, Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association, Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association, Hyderabad Cricket Association, Jharkhand State Cricket Association, Cricket Club of India, Rajasthan Cricket Association, Karnataka State Cricket Association, Punjab Cricket Association, Gujarat Cricket Association, Vidarbha Cricket Association. SENIOR TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE: N Shivalal Yadav (chairman), Haryana Cricket Association, Goa Cricket Association, Assam Cricket Association, Maharashtra Cricket Association, Railways Sports Promotion Board, N Srinivasan (convenor). TECHNICAL COMMITTEE: Sunil Gavaskar (chairman), Prem Thakur, Sudhakar Rao, Nilay Dutta, Milind Rege, Prashant Vaidya, K Srikkanth, Sourav Ganguly, VK Ramaswamy, N Srinivasan (convenor). TOUR, PROGRAMME & FIXTURE COMMITTEE: Lalit Modi (chairman), Aslam Goni, Vishnu Kumar Raju, Biswarup Dey, Rajesh Patel, Prem Dhar Pathak, N Srinivasan (convenor). FINANCE COMMITTEE: Rajeev Shukla (chairman), Anurag Thakur, Yadigiri, Amitabh Choudhary, Amit Shah, Jyotiraditya Scindia, MP Pandove (convenor). JUNIOR CRICKET COMMITTEE: Chirayu Amin (chairman), Lt Col Sanjay Varma, Vinod Phadke, Malay Chakraborthy, Anil Patel, Mahendra Nahar, Sanjay Jagdale (convenor). UMPIRES SUB-COMMITTEE: Arun Jaitley (chairman), Anirudh chaudhry, TR Balakrishnan, Bikas Baruah, Samarjit Gaekwad, MN Dorairajan, S Venkataraghavan (director), AV Jayaprakash, Sanjay Jagdale (convenor). VIZZY TROPHY COMMITTEE: Arindam Ganguly (chairman), R P Singh, Rajeev Gokhale, Gurdeep Singh, Prof Beena Shah (joint convenor), Sanjay Jagdale (joint convenor). WOMEN’S COMMITTEE: Shashank Manohar (chairman), Geeta Mehta, Vidya Yadav, Anuradha Misra, Diana Edulji, Shubhangi Kulkarni, Sharad Pawar, N Srinivasan (convenor). ALL INDIA SENIOR SELECTION COMMITTEE: K Srikkanth (chairman), Yashpal Sharma, N Hirwani, Surendra Bhave, C R Venkatraman, N Srinivasan (convenor). ALL INDIA JUNIOR SELECTION COMMITTEE: Abey Kuruvilla (chairman), Arun Sharma, Sanjay Desai, Rajesh Borah, Rajinder Singh Hans, Sanjay Jagdale (convenor). ALL INDIA WOMEN’S SELECTION COMMITTEE: Sandhya Agarwal (chairperson), Purnima Rau, Reshma Gandhi, Mithu Mukherjee, Vrinda Bhagat, N Srinivasan (convenor).