Edulji reminds Rai how timelines were changed to appoint Shastri; Calls women coach Raman’s selection illegal

With the Board of Control for Cricket in India naming WV Raman as the next women’s coach, Chief Financial Officer Santosh Rangnekar had sent a mail to Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators asking for their approval with regards to approval of the professional fee to be given to the newly appointed coach. File picture of Diana Edulji, Vinod Rai CoA member Diana Edulji has in a strongly-worded letter warned the board against making any move that could see them being accused of causing a notional loss to the BCCI and asked Raman to be sent to New Zealand as interim coach and let the Cricket Advisory Committee select a new coach. Please recall the time when the men’s team went without a coach to West Indies and late Doc Sridhar was asked to be with the team, as timelines were extended and CAC was allowed to complete its process of selecting a coach,” she wrote in her letter to chief Vinod Rai, accessed by Hindustan Times. “The reason for not allowing the authorised CAC to do their job in selecting a competent coach for women’s team and instead taking an illegal step from your end and later justifying your actions as the need of the hour and using women’s cricket as an excuse is completely uncalled for,” she wrote to Rai. “Also note, that taking unilateral decisions are more detrimental to the image of BCCI and also to the appointment of COA who was appointed to ensure the implementation of the reforms.” Earlier, in another letter, accessed by Hindustan Times, Diana had put out the numerous reasons why she was not willing to approve the process of appointing Raman the new women’s team coach as it is an illegal process and the ad hoc committee that was formed to pick the coach wasn’t as per the newly registered constitution of the BCCI.