1. The name of the Association is "THE BOARD OF CONTROL
FOR CRICKET IN INDIA" and it shall here after be referred
to as the BOARD.
2. The objects of the Board are :
(a) To control the game of cricket in India and give its
decision on all matters including women's cricket which
may be referred to it by any member association in India;
(b) To encourage the formation of State, Regional or other
Cricket Associations and the organization of Inter-State
and other Tournaments;
(c) To arrange, control, regulate and if necessary finance
visits of Teams that are Members of the International
Cricket Council and teams of other Countries in India;
(d) To arrange, control, regulate and finance visits of an
Indian Cricket Team to tour countries that are
Members of the International Cricket Council or
elsewhere in conjunction with the bodies governing
cricket in the countries to be visited;
(e) To promote the game throughout India by organizing
coaching schemes, establishing coaching academies,
holding tournaments, exhibition matches, Test Matches,
ODI's, Twenty/20, any other matches and by any other
manner;
(f) To foster the spirit of sportsmanship and the ideals o
cricket amongst school, college and university
students and others and educate them in the same;
(g) To frame the Laws of Cricket in India and to make
alteration, amendments or addition to the laws of cricket
in india whenever desirable or necessary;
(h) To appoint Trustees in whom shall vest immovable
properties and funds of the Board as may be entrusted
to them from time to time;
(i) To sell, manage, mortgage, lease, exchange, dispose of
or otherwise deal with all or any property of the Board;
(j) To collect funds and wherever necessary borrow with or
without security and to purchase, redeem or pay off any
such securities;
(k) To carry on any other activity which may seem to the
Board capable of being conveniently carried on in
connection with the above, or calculated directly or
indirectly to enhance the value of, or render profitable
any of the properties or rights of the Board;
(l) To donate such sum or sums for (i) such causes as
would be deemed fit by the Board conducive to the
promotion of the game of Cricket, (ii) the benefit of
cricketer or his widow or children by introducing
benevolent fund scheme subject to the rules and
regulations of the BCCI or other benefit schemes, as
the Board may deem fit, (iii) any other person who
has served cricket or his widow or his children as the
Board may consider fit. (iv) to award sponsorship to
sports person in games other than cricket for
development of their individual skills. (v) to donate
to any charitable cause.
(m) To organize matches in aid of Public Charities and Relief
Funds;
(n) To lay out any ground for playing the game and for other
purposes and to provide pavilion, canteen and
other conveniences and amenities in connection
therewith;
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(o) To impart physical education through the medium of
cricket and take all steps to assist the citizens to develop
their physique;
(p) (i) To acquire movable and immovable property and to
apply both the capital and income thereof and the
proceeds of the sale or mortgage thereof, for or
towards, all or any of the objects of the Board;
(ii) To appoint Committees, from time to time to
organize matches for the achievement of the
objects of the Board and to utilise the net proceeds
thereof towards the implementation of the objects
set out herein;
(q) To introduce a scheme of professionalism and to
implement the same;
(r) To take such action as may be necessary to coordinate
the activities of affiliated associations, institutions and
their members in relation to the Board and amongst
themselves;
(s) To select teams to represent India in Test Matches,
One Day International and Twenty/20 matches played in
India or abroad, and to select such other teams as
the Board may decide from time to time;
(t) To start or sponsor and/or to subscribe to funds or
stage a match for the benefit of the cricketers oper sons
who may have rendered service to the game of cricket
or for their families or to donate towards the development
or promotion of the game;
(u) To appoint Manager and/or other officials of Indian
Teams;
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(v) To appoint India's representative or representatives
on the International Cricket Conference and other
Conferences,Seminars,connectedwiththegameofCricket;
(w) To employ, appoint executive secretaries Administrative
officer and assistant secretaries,clerks, managers,
coaches, professional cricketers, umpires, scorers,
statisticians, groundsmen, peons, servants and other
service personal and staff and to pay to them and other
persons in return for their services rendered to the
Board, salaries, wages, gratuities, pensions,
honorariums, ex-gratia payments and/or provident fund
and to remove or dismiss such employees;
(x) To start and maintain a library of books, museum,
periodicals on Sports in general and Cricket in particular
and to start journals or journals on cricket;
(y) Generally to do all such other acts and things as may
seem to the board to be convenient and/or conducive to
the carrying out the objects of the Board;
3. The income, funds and properties of the Board, however
acquired, shall be utilized and applied solely for the
promotion of the objects of the Board as set forth above to aid
and assist financially or otherwise and to promote,
encourage, advance and develop and generally to assist
the game of cricket or any other sport throughout India.
4. The Board shall not be dissolved unless the dissolution is
decided upon by a resolution passed at a General Meeting
of the Board convened for the purpose, by a majority of
3/4th of the Members present and entitled to vote. The
quorum for such meeting shall be 2/3rd of the members who
have a right to vote. In the case of dissolution of the Board, if
there shall remain after satisfaction of all debts and liabilities,
any property whatsoever, it shall be given or transferred to
some other institution or institutions having objects similar to
those of the Board and not running for profit.