<img title="BCCI CEO Rahul Johri" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/jan/7-rahul-johri.jpg" alt="BCCI CEO Rahul Johri" /> BCCI CEO Rahul Johri
The first selection meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) after the January 3 Supreme Court-directed exit of president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke, unfolded with plenty of drama and suspense at the board's headquarters in Mumbai yesterday.
The meeting to select India's one-day and T20 squads for the home series against England, was scheduled to be held at 12.30 pm but was delayed by close to three hours. Close to 1.30 pm, a BCCI spokesperson said that the delay was "due to logistical reasons" and "technical failure in linking up coach Anil Kumble and Virat Kohli with the selection panel through a video conference".
But after the meeting, when chief selector MSK Prasad addressed the media, it emerged that the delay was actually due to a lack of clarity as to who was going to convene the selection meeting. Normally, the BCCI secretary convenes it.
But yesterday morning, BCCI's joint secretary Amitabh Chaudhary, it is learnt, sent an e-mail to BCCI CEO Rahul Johri asking him to postpone the meeting to the evening so that he can reach Mumbai from Ranchi by then to convene the meeting. A confused Johri then wrote to the Lodha panel, overseeing functions of the Board till January 19, seeking clarity in the matter.
Johri wrote: "Although Mr Amitabh Chaudhary has completed nine years as an office bearer of a state association, he has not completed nine years as an office bearer of BCCI. In view of the above, please advise as to whether Mr Amitabh Chaudhury stands disqualified in terms of the order dated 2nd January 2017 read with the order dated 3rd January 2017 and whether we should go ahead with the selection committee meeting as per your earlier emails or act on the instructions of Mr Amitabh Chaudhury."
In reply to Johri's mail, the Lodha panel secretary Gopal Sankaranarayanan, said that Choudhury no longer qualifies to be an officebearer under the panel's recommendations and that the selection meeting should go on as per schedule, with him (Johri) as the convener.

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