Bihar Cricket Association secretary urges Narendra Modi to help fix BCCI affairs

NEW DELHI: Aditya Verma, secretary of the Cricket Association of Bihar which is the petitioner in the IPL betting and spot-fixing case, has written to Narendra Modi, asking the incoming Prime Minister to “consider the case of young cricketers of Bihar” and also to make the Indian cricket board strong and free of conflict of interest.

In his letter, Verma has requested Modi on “behalf of thousands of cricketers from Bihar” to set up an ad-hoc committee that will revive cricket in the state.
"Perhaps you will be surprised to know that after bifurcation of the state of Bihar, the newly created state of Jharkhand fraudulently snatched the recognition from Bihar," he said. For the past 12 years, young cricketers of Bihar failed to participate in any level of cricket conducted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the letter said.

Verma urged Modi to take the cause and save cricket and the BCCI, and said he could make the cricket body and other sports organisations corruption-free.
"If you will not care or interfere in the functioning of BCCI, nobody can save the institution," Verma wrote, while accusing the national cricket body’s sidelined president N Srinivasan and associations loyal to him of hijacking the BCCI.