Explained: How BCCI plans to help India develop Olympic talent

The BCCI has in the past supported Olympic sports in India by providing financial assistance but this is the first time they could play a direct role in developing the talent.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has reportedly come forward to help Olympic sports grow and develop in the country. Reportedly, the world’s richest cricket board is “keen on adopting two to three Olympic disciplines” in the sports ministry’s ambitious plan to have corporate-backed individual Centres of Excellence, the work for which will begin this year.

This was conveyed by the cash-rich cricket body in a meeting with sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday. The gathering also featured “representatives from 58 corporate houses”.

“Mr Rajeev Shukla, who represented the BCCI in this meeting, said that the Board is willing to adopt two to three Olympic disciplines and would leave it on the ministry to decide what those disciplines would be,” a source in the sports ministry said.

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