Will they or will they not is the question doing rounds over the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) members' stand on the Lodha Committee report, which the BCCI members says will be known only at the Special General Meeting (SGM) scheduled to be held on Friday afternoon.

“Individually, every member is opposed to most of the recommendations but the state units are awaiting a direction from the 'centre' for a collective stand. More precisely, they are waiting for BCCI president Shahsank Manohar, himself a noted lawyer, to show the way at the SGM. Not too many BCCI members have managed to pick the brains of the BCCI boss as yet but it is learnt that the board will opt for multiple options and one of them could be seeking permission from the Supreme Court to go back to Justice RM Lodha for a renewed round of discussion on some of the measures he has suggested,” says a report in The Mumbai Mirror.

According to a report in The Indian Express, “They are fine with some of the reforms such as the age clause and the restriction on the number of terms for administrators, but will strongly oppose the one-state, one-vote recommendation.”

Speaking informally with The Indian Express, officials from various state associations said the clause that restricts anyone over 70 from becoming an administrator and the three-terms cap suggestion are acceptable. Unsurprisingly, however, the main opposition is regarding the proposal that seeks to restrict a state to just one vote. Some states such as Maharashtra and Gujarat have three associations. The report also proposes that the BCCI relegate the additional associations and others such as Railways and Services to non-voting Associate members.

“We respect the Lodha panel and are giving importance to it. State associations do have their own problems in their minds. We will have a discussion on it and a practical view will be taken,” IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said.

Though not too many BCCI members have managed to pick the brains of the BCCI boss as yet but it is learnt that the board will opt for multiple options and one of them could be seeking permission from the Supreme Court to go back to Justice RM Lodha for a renewed round of discussion on some of the measures he has suggested.

"That is an option surely. There is a feeling among members that the Lodha panel did not discuss with us the reforms before it came out with them. We wish to put across our points of view," a member, in the know of the developments, told Mirror on Thursday.