Bihar Cricket Association
Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) is the governing body of the cricket activities in the Bihar state of Bihar and the Bihar cricket team. It is affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket in India as full member. BCA was founded in 1935. Supreme Court of India-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) approved BCA as the authorized body for organizing cricket in Bihar. Official tournaments. Randhir Verma Under-19 Trophy. Randhir Verma Under-19 Bihar Championship is a One day cricket tournament played between the district cricket teams in the Indian state of Bihar, organised by Bihar Cricket Association . The tournament is recognised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The cricket tournament is organized at five Zonal centres. In the year 2018, the tournament was organized at Arwal. Before Partition of Bihar the region currently known as Jharkhand played the tournament under BCA. Following statehood, Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) also conducts matches for its own districts under the title Randhir Verma trophy. Venue. The matches of the south zone was played at Bhabhua in Kaimur district. The matches of the east zone were played at Sri Krishna Sah stadium in Jamui, Jamui district, Dakbangla grounds  at Sonpur Courts' directives on affiliation. Cricket should be kept free from politics and the game should not become a ball for politicians, the Supreme Court of India observed on 25 November 2012. The remarks were made by the bench during the hearing of a petition relating to the ongoing dispute between two rival associations of cricket in Bihar for running the administration of the sport in the state. Patna High Court has directed Board of Cricket Control in India, BCCI in July 2012 to include Bihar in various National Level Cricket Tournaments. Patna High Court on 20 September 2011  allowed CAB, rival Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) faction headed by Binod Kumar to operate its account with a nationalised bank. Patna High court in November 2011,directed the state government to file an intervener petition in a case related to the Bihar Cricket Association.The government's counsel, AAG 1 Lalit Kishore, told the court that both the factions of BCA, one headed by RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and the other by Binod Kumar, have not made government a party in the petition. Bombay High Court in December 2010 held that "the present petitioner (CAB) never claimed to be successor of  BCA Patna (which represented Bihar in BCCI before bifurcation) and BCA Patna has already given up its challenge to the recommendations of the committee that JSCA is the changed name of BCA (1935). It is, therefore, necessary for the petitioner to apply for an affiliate membership at the first instance and then seek promotion as an associate member and thereafter full member. The Rules and Regulations are binding and the BCCI must follow the said Rules" BCA timeline. The Association of Bihar Cricket and Cricket Association of Bihar on 11 July 2012 charged the Lalu Prasad Yadav-led Bihar Cricket  Association of committing financial irregularities to the tune of 5 million, which the BCCI had granted for development of the game in the state in 2008. The Bihar government had dissolved the BCA on grounds of irregularities in December 2008. References. https://www.bhaskar.com/bihar/patna/news/bihar-has-earned-a-name-in-cricket-for-two-decades-neither-sports-nor-players-5910538.html