Being adhesive in a cricket-related scenario only pays when one is at the crease. It’s a lesson the mandarins of BCCI should learn after the Supreme Court approved most recommendations made by the Justice Lodha Panel to cleanse Indian cricket.

Had it not been for the then BCCI president N Srinivasan’s refusal to step down — as a matter of principle — as soon as his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was named in the 2013 spot fixing scandal, the Board would not have had the ignominy of seeing their autonomy being challenged.