Sharad Pawar said that he would step down after six months as the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president following the Supreme Court’s ruling on age cap of 70 years for cricket administrators.

• The Lodha Committee had recommended,  that there be caps on age and duration of tenure of elected office bearers of the BCCI and state associations. These proposals were signed off on by the Supreme Court, and Pawar does not qualify on both grounds, being over 70 years of age and having served as an office bearer for over nine years.

• The Lodha Committee is entrusted with the task of overseeing the implementation of its recommendations and, its secretary, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, had warned that if the BCCI or any of the the states were to violate any of the rules laid out in the Lodha report, they will be guilty of contempt of court.

• Pawar served as the chairman of the BCCI from 2005 to 2008 and as the president of the ICC from 2010 to 2012.
• Pawar said, the MCA wanted clarification on one point: the one-state-one-vote proposal, by which no state can have more than a single vote in the BCCI elections. Currently Maharashtra contains three associations eligible to vote, the Maharashtra Cricket Association, the Mumbai Cricket Association and the Vidarbha Cricket Association.

The Lodha Committee recommended that in such cases, the associations vote by rotation; so each of Maharashtra, Mumbai and Vidarbha will get a vote once in three years.  “We have no objections on that [one-state, one-vote] but the important issue is the jurisdiction of that member who is going to vote,