Justice Mukul Mudgal to oversee DDCA's World T 20 matches: HC

DDCA will hold matches of the upcoming T2O world cup under the supervision of Justice (Retd) Mukul Mudgal whose intervention has helped resolving several contentious issues between the cricket body and others, Delhi High Court said today.
The high court, however, made it clear that South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) will grant occupancy certificate to DDCA for conducting the T20 matches only if the cricketing body gets all requisite clearances from concerned authorities.
A bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vibhu Bakhru said, "We will continue with the same arrangement under Justice Mudgal. Without Justice Mudgal, nothing would have been done and you all would have kept fighting with each other."

"Considering that there will be at least seven matches as part of the world T20 which will be held at Ferozshah Kotla stadium, we request Justice Mudgal to oversee the matches in terms of the court's order dated November 18 and December 18 last year," the bench added.
It also asked Mudgal to ensure that functioning of Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) be streamlined.
"Without Justice Mudgal, the present improvement would not have been possible," it said and asked DDCA to cooperate with him to ensure that his recommendations made earlier to the court were followed.

The bench also asked Justice Mudgal to file a compliance report on March 3, ahead of the ICC T20 world cup 2016 matches scheduled to begin from March 8.

The court's direction came on the plea of DDCA, which had moved the court against denial of permission by SMCD to hold match.
The High Court on November 18 last year had paved the way for DDCA to hold the 4th India-South Africa test match and appointed Mudgal to oversee the affairs of the match. It had asked DDCA to get completion certificate from SDMC by March 31 to hold matches in furture.
It had then asked him to submit his report with regard to the status of obtaining requisite clearances or other compliances before March 31.
During the hearing, advocate Nitin Mishra submitted the status report prepared by Justice Mudgal on the steps taken by DDCA towards obtaining the clearances.

The municipal body had clarified that the occupancy
certificate was for the entire stadium, barring R P Mehra block which falls within 100 metres of a protected monument and thus lacks ASI clearance.
The SDMC clearance had come after Justice Mudgal was appointed as observer by the high court to oversee the conduct of the 2016 T2O world cup and IPL season early this year, as well as the functioning of DDCA.
On July 11, he had submitted a report pointing out various deficiencies in DDCA and observed that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) being the parent body has to ensure that the Delhi cricketing body was "transparent in its functioning".

He had also given several recommendations, including scrutiny by BCCI of the current state of affairs in DDCA and strengthening of its "accounts wing".
The report had pointed to deficiencies in tendering, accounts and finance, administration, promotion of cricket and selection of players, ticketing and accreditation and suggested various measures to bring down these shortcomings.