The Mumbai Cricket Association has indicated that it might not be able to host the fourth ODI between India and West Indies on October 29 as they don’t have any office bearer to dispense payments to various vendors.
The Bombay High Court had appointed two Committee of Administrator justice VN Kanade and Hemant Gokhale to oversee the functioning of MCA but their term ended on September 15. The High Court didn’t give an extension to them, and the COA gave full charge to CEO CS Naik. With no official signatory, all payments at MCA have been halted, including salaries of staff and players’ daily allowances.
The MCA is worried especially after the financial problems they faced during the Vijay Hazare tournament. Mumbai, which had India players like Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav and Dhawal Kulkarni, were staying in a Bengaluru hotel for 21 days and the administration couldn’t pay the 16 lakh bill for the accommodation.
The MCA had to request BCCI to bail them out after the hotel authorities took up the issue with Mumbai team manager Armaan Mallik. “The first ten days went pretty well but last week the hotel guy wanted us to pay our hotel bills. The tone which was used was very harsh,” Mallik told The Indian Express.
