The Committee of Administrators (CoA), appointed by the Bombay High Court in April to make the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) complaint of the Justice Lodha Committee reforms, yesterday appealed to the court to relieve them from their responsibility for alleged use of abusive language by an MCA member.

A source close to the two-member CoA, retired Justices Hemant Gokhale and VM Kanade, said they have filed a report in the Bombay HC, alleging abusive remarks against the CoA. "MCA member Ravi Mandrekar has used very bad remarks and the language too was abusive. And that is the reason the CoA does not wish to continue any longer," the source told mid-day.