Rupa Gurunath elected President of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association

Chennai: Former BCCI chief N. Srinivasan’s daughter Rupa Gurunath has been elected the President of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA). She was elected unopposed at TNCA’s 87th Annual General Meeting in Chennai on Thursday.

Rupa Gurunath is the first woman to head a state unit of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Rupa’s was the only nomination filed for the post of president, the process of filing nomination ended on Wednesday evening.

The Supreme Court on September 20 allowed the TNCA to hold elections to elect its office bearers. A bench comprising Justices S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao said that the election results will be subject to the final order.

It had been alleged that the state cricket body and four other state cricket bodies had not complied with the BCCI constitution in its entirety. At this observation of the court, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) objected that the Tamil Nadu cricket body did not comply with the BCCI constitution.

Senior advocate P.S. Narasimha, who is assisting the apex court as Amicus Curiae, contended that only four out of 38 cricket association had failed to adopt the new BCCI constitution. IANS

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