Nothing has challenged the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) autonomy the way the Lodha Committee’s recommendations — revealed yesterday — have.

The panel’s recommendations aim to clean up this country’s best-loved sport, but despite all good intentions, they will be viewed as obstacles to a particular way of running cricket in India. These measures, it must be stressed, are just recommendations that can be challenged in court. And if that happens, the battle could well be billed as reformists versus road-blockers.