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Former CAG Vinod Rai Admits There Was No Plan To Write 'Not Just A Nightwatchman'.
Former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Vinod Rai confesses that : My Innings in the BCCI'(Rupa Publications), which hit the stands recently. Rai, who was appointed as the Head of the Supreme Court-mandated Committee of Administrators(CoA) to oversee the administration of the BCCI on January 30, 2017, tells IANS that several people told him that considering the fact that his experience at BCCI was much different from any other officer there, the same warranted a book.
"Everybody else had come through an election process while we had been helicoptered into the BCCI. There was so much talk about how we conducted things there, so I thought it made sense to the cricket-loving population to know about how the BCCI works and the kind of changes we tried to bring about -- and yes, why it took us so long to do it," he says.
there was no 'plan' to write 'Not Just a Nightwatchman
Stressing that he looks back at his years at BCCI with a sense of total content as they were able to implement the orders of the court, bring about total transparency and ensure a player-centric approach, the author adds, "The cricketing body surely lacked a player-centric approach and we were able to reverse that in terms of compensation packages, workload and gaps between tournaments among other things. Of course, bringing about all these changes took much longer than I expected."
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