The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the Board of Control for Cricket in India the liberty to spend Rs. 1.33 lakhs for the remaining two Test matches against England. They have also asked the board to submit an affidavit on the revenue collections from all test matches in the series. The BCCI has also been allowed to spend Rs 25 lakhs for each ODI and T20 match of the ongoing series.

On November 8 the BCCI was allowed to incur the expense of 58.66 lakhs for the first match which started on November 9 removing all hurdles created by the state cricket associations on hosting the India-England series. They had also warned that Saurashtra Cricket Association should not receive any of the funds.

The board was allowed to use the same arrangement of incurring expenses for the India vs England series as this relief continued until December 3.

The bench made it clear that the parties with various contracts would receive direct payments while permitting the BCCI to incur the expenditure.

The apex court has also asked the BCCI to maintain a book of actual expenditure which they have to produce in front of the Justice RM Lodha committee for verification by its auditor who ahs to be appointed by the panel.

Former home secretary GK Pillai has been appointed as an observer of BCCI for hearing the plea of the Lodha Committee on December 9. The BCCI office bearers who are holding posts in contravention of norms such as age bar and one person-one post have been asked to be removed.