Bihar Cricket Association
| Sport | Cricket |
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| Category | v under 16 |
| Jurisdiction | Bihar |
| Abbreviation | BCA |
| Founded | 1936 |
| Affiliation | Board of Control for Cricket in India |
| Affiliation date | 2016 |
| Regional affiliation | East Zone |
| Affiliation date | 1936 |
| Headquarters | Moin-ul-Haq Stadium |
| Location | Patna |
| President | Gopal Bohra |
| Secretary | Ravi Shankar Prasad Singh |
| Coach | Subroto Banerjee |
| Other key staff | 17 |
| Official website | |
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Bihar Cricket Association is a body of the cricket activities in the Bihar state of India 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.
The issue of affiliation got a fresh twist when BJP MP and former test cricketer Kirti Azad jumped into it with his own Association of Bihar Cricket (ABC). Later in Oct 2009, singer Manoj Tiwari was elected the President of ABC. In July 2010, Kirti Azad attacked Bihar Cricket Association chief Lalu Prasad accusing him of ruining cricket in the state by running the BCA in an arbitrary manner.
While the controversy over actual affiliation of cricket bodies in Bihar to the BCCI went on, a group of officials of the BCA parted ways to form another association Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) with Shekhar Sinha as chief and Aditya Verma as Secretary. In the interregnum, the return of Lalu Prasad as Union minister and election of his cabinet colleague Sharad Pawar raised some hope for cricket as the BCCI offered associate membership to the BCA in 2008 by allowing it to organise junior level matches. However that decision was challenged in the court and the hope was short-lived after the BJP-JD(U) coalition government in the state cancelled the BCA's registration for breach of norms. ABC chairman Azad is also said to have been instrumental in it. As of late 2013, CAB was in a legal battle with BCCI over the issue of the conflict of interest of N. Srinivasan.
Bihar along with the Sikkim Cricket Association, Manipur Cricket Association and Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh are BCCI's associate members. As an associate member, BCA gets an annual grant of Rs 75 lakh from the BCCI.
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