Mumbai: Chhattisgarh Cricket Sangh (CCS) was on Friday granted full membership by the BCCI in its Working Committee meeting here. Chhattisgarh was an associate member for long and will now be the 28th affiliated unit of the board that will take part in the Ranji Trophy.
“The Members approved the recommendation of the affiliation committee of BCCI to grant full member status to Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh. They will be a part of the Central Zone for all the BCCI tournaments,” BCCI stated in a release.
“We are happy that our hard work has paid off. It is great news for the players of our state who had to migrate to other states to continue playing after the Under-19 level. Now we can play in the Ranji Trophy and also our talented cricketers can have shot in the Indian team,” said president Baldev Singh Bhatia who represented CCS in the meeting.
The board also allowed Bihar Cricket Association (BCA), one of the warring factions in the state to participate in the working committee meeting. “We thank the board for allowing us to attend today’s meeting. Our Association has been recognised as an associate member. Now we can concentrate on development of cricket in the state,” said BCA secretary Mrityunjay Tiwary who attended the meeting on Friday.
Although there was no official confirmation from BCCI on BCA’s inclusion as associate member but they seem to have ignored another unsanctioned Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB), whose secretary Aditya Verma became the face of the IPL spot-fixing petition. Verma also accused BCCI joint secretary Amitabh Choudhary of having conflict of interest just a day ago.
