Kathmandu, July 23
The International Cricket Council has given one more month to the Nepal cricket advisory committee to endorse a proposed statute of the Cricket Association Nepal.
On the other hand, two rival factions within the advisory committee–led by Binay Raj Pandey and Ashok Nath Pyakuryal–have come closer and have agreed to resolve the dispute about the number of representatives from district committees to CAN general assembly.
The two sides have agreed that a representative will be selected from each of 38 district cricket associations and two districts send one representative each from other places.
The agreement was made during a meeting held on Saturday in the presence of ICC representative Imran Khawaja.
Earlier, the statute had proposed that each two districts have one vote in the central general assembly, but Pyakuryal faction had wanted every district to be given voting rights.
Despite Pyakuryal’s objection, the statute was sent to the ICC.
Pandey and Pyakuryal are yet to find an agreement on whether to give the Chatur Bahadur Chand-led elected body of CAN a right to participate in the first general assembly to be held after the endorsement of new statute.
The two leaders have agreed to hold a next meeting soon with a hope to iron out all differences.
The advisory committee was formed by the ICC in October 2016 with a mandate to suggest changes to CAN’s statute. It is supposed to submit its report in June 2017, just ahead of the global body’s annual conference in London (June 19-23).
