More turbulent times may lie ahead for the recently elected president of the BCCI, Ranbir Singh Mahendra. But, on his first ‘‘official visit’’ to Mumbai, Mahendra sounded confident and upbeat as he spoke to The Indian Express on a range of issues
ON THE CHANCES OF A BCCI RE-POLL
• I don’t think it’s in the offing so I don’t want to comment. The stay on the working of the Board has been removed and the present working is smooth. As far as the re-poll issue is concerned, the application moved by the interested parties is only a review application. It is not a petition.
ON ELECTIONS TO THE FRACTIOUS MCA
• I have been reading about this in the papers and I do not want to say anything on the issue. Regarding their representation at the BCCI elections, former president Jagmohan Dalmiya has already given a ruling in the presence of a retired High Court Judge of Kolkata during the BCCI AGM and it was done on some basis
ON THE NAGPUR PITCH CONTROVERSY
• This too I’ve been reading about in the newspapers. I am still to receive the report from the match observer as well as the team management. Once the reports are received and if the need be we will put it up before the working committee
ON THE INDIAN PERFORMANCE
• It’s definitely cause for concern. We feel that our boys have failed this time. Maybe they are passing through a bad phase but it will soon be over. We are confident of doing better in the series against South Africa
— Vinay Nayudu