Will make BCCI a role model: CoA chief

Vinod Rai ()

Kolkata, Jan 27 - Admitting the cleansing of Indian cricket would not happen overnight, Committee of Administrators (COA) chief Vinod Rai said on Saturday that his aim is to make the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) a role model for sports administration.

In the same breadth, Rai added that implementing the wholesome reform is still a long way off.

"As an avid sports lover, I would very much like to see BCCI become the role model in large number of ways for administration to be built upon in a large number of way in the days to come.

"Anything that needs to be cleaned up in a system has degenerated over a period of 30 years -- at least. We have to go through the court process, which takes long in India. You can't do 30 years of cleansing overnight.

"The buzzword for us is perseverance. Only thing I can say is I'm a retired unemployed, totally benign private citizen. I've tons of time and I've perseverance," Rai said during a session on "Reforming Indian Sport" organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

Rai assured that 99 percent of the problems that is plaguing Indian cricket have been identified.

"We should acknowledge they have gotten to the root of the problem. You can't expect a committee of one and half years to get to the 360 degrees of the entire problem. 

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