The Bombay High Court disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking to espouse the cause of the cricket players as to direct the Mumbai Cricket Association and the Board of Control for Cricket in India to provide pure and drinkable water and other facilities to the players during the practice match/ unofficial matches on public grounds.
The PIL filed by an Advocate further sought directions regarding the facilities for women players are also sought.
“The Petitioner is a practicing Advocate. There is no reason given why this class, the players, cannot seek redressal of their grievance on their own”, the Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Sandeep V. Marne observed.
In these circumstances, the Bench held that the appropriate course of action would be to call upon Mumbai Cricket Association and Board of Control for Cricket in India to consider the PIL as suggestions made and if it is feasible for them to do so, proceed to implement the same.
It is clarified by the Court that its order is not to be construed as direction to Mumbai Cricket Association and Board of Control for Cricket in India to grant relief as sought for by the Petitioner but only as suggestions.