The Working Committee also approved the reports of its sub-committees namely Umpires Committee, Finance Committee, Ground and Pitches Committee, Junior Cricket Committee and Senior Tournaments Committee.

The Working Committee also decided to conduct specialised coaching camps for fast bowlers, spinners and batsmen at the cricket academies of Punjab Cricket Association, Tamil Nadu CA and Mumbai CA, respectively.

Srinivasan would be the Chairman of the committee formed to oversee these camps with Jagdale, treasurer M P Pandove, National Cricket Academy's Director Dav Whatmore, Prof. R S Shetty and Anurag Thakur as his colleagues on the panel.

"These camps will supplement the activities being carried out presently at the National Cricket Academy, Bangalore," Srinivasan said.

It was also decided that the BCCI would encourage all its affiliated member associations to increase the number of grounds available for junior cricket, especially the quality of wickets on which these matches are to be played, Srinivasan stated.

BCCI’s venture for player’s welfare

The BCCI decided to introduce an Inter-Corporate prize money tournament, to be conducted in 50-over and Twenty20 formats, to encourage business houses to recruit cricketers into their fold and improve the players' employment opportunities.

The winners of the proposed Inter-Corporate tournament would be richer by Rs one crore, the runners-up would get Rs 50 lakh and the losing semi finalists Rs 25 lakh each, as per a decision taken by the BCCI's all-powerful Working Committee in Mumbai on Friday.

BCCI's joint secretary and former member of the national selection panel, Sanjay Jagdale, was chosen as the chairman of the new committee formed to oversee the conduct of the Inter-Corporate tournament.

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