Lodha panel’s one-state-one-vote recommendation may dilute standard of Ranji Trophy: Sunil Gavaskar

Kolkata : Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar on Saturday feared that the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha Committee’s one-state-one vote recommendation may ‘dilute’ the standard of Ranji Trophy cricket in India.
“No problem with ‘one-state- one-vote’ but maybe states that are not ready to play first class cricket should not be allowed to because it would dilute the quality of Ranji Trophy cricket,” the legendary cricketer said on the sidelines of Kolkata Literary Meet here.
“For example states like Meghalaya and Nagaland, who don’t have proper cricketing infrastructure, are going to play Ranji Trophy when they are not ready to play first class cricket, then I think the standard of cricket will be diluted and that’s not going to help Indian cricket.” As per the Lodha Committee recommendations for reforms in the BCCI, only one member from a state will have voting rights, which has been strongly resisted by the Board.
Maharashtra and Gujarat have four and three cricket associations respectively as permanent members.“Not every county plays county cricket in England and not every state plays shield cricket in Australia,” Gavaskar said. “Hopefully over the next few days a final decision will be taken (on who will the administrators be) and we can start planning for IPL.”