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There is no knowing whether anyone in the BCCI is a fan of either Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin or Albert Einstein. Supreme Court judges definitely are, going by the opening paragraphs of the 143-page judgement issued by the two-man bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice FMI Kalifullah. The three mighty minds were quoted when discussing humankinds resistance to change, with the bench recognising that the BCCIs strident objections to the Lodha committee recommendations were meant to protect a continuance of the status quo.The Supreme Courts final order directly addresses and proceeds to upturn the BCCIs objections to the Lodha recommendations, which detailed organisational reform within Indias richest sporting body and crickets strongest board. The court accepted both the Lodha report and its recommendations with a handful of minor modifications and clarifications. This marks the end of three years of miscalculations by individual office-bearers, and collective decision-making by the BCCI that began with the arrest of three cricketers in May 2013.What happens next? In real terms, the day-to-day operations of Indian cricket will keep running. Like the Lodha report, the Supreme Court order once again separates governance from operations. The operational BCCI continues on its way, now armed with a CEO, an ombudsman, an ethics officer, and a full-time professional auditor. What has been rigorously shaken, with nuts and bolts now left rattling, is the existing frame of the BCCI, which is less stainless steel and more rusted metal.The order lays down a fairly watertight list of strictures for aspiring cricket officials, focusing on what posts they can hold in cricket administration, particularly at the highest level, and for how long. The much-advertised love for cricket of many seasoned, or indeed newly appointed, cricket officials will now be put to the test. The court has ordered that the recommendations be implemented within six months - by the time Justice TS Thakur serves his full term and hands charge for the BCCIs restructuring to the very individuals who held up a mirror to the board: Team Lodha.The Supreme Courts order was fairly considerate when hammering home a few disputed recommendations. Fussed about how to fund a players association? the court asked. The funding is your prerogative, but there has got to be an association. Angry about a cooling-off period between two terms in top BCCI posts? Arrive at a conclusion on how to handle this, but the cooling-off period stays. IPL franchises on the all-powerful IPL governing council? Lets ask the Lodha committee to work out if this is not a conflict of interest and then see what they say.The court divorced itself from issuing unyielding orders on matters that were not strictly within the Lodha panels reformative and recommendatory ambit. Like controlling the amount and nature of advertising on cricket broadcasts on television by reworking existing deals (this recommendation was dead on arrival on the grounds of common sense alone), or knotty legislative issues like legalising betting or placing the BCCI under the ambit of the Right to Information Act.Weighty, monumental (and cataclysmic for the BCCI), the Lodha report order carries much significance. If the BCCI, a financially self-sufficient, self-sustaining and globally significant sports body - and therefore an anomaly among Indian sports bodies - can be made answerable to writ jurisdictions, its functioning taken apart in court, so can any other Indian national sports federation. These bodies that run Indias Olympic sports, largely supported by public money, have previously been considered untouchable, backed as they are by political bigwigs and legal luminaries. The Thakur-Kalifullah bench has cited the governments National Sports Development Code 2011 - which applies to all nationally recognised sports bodies - in setting an age limit of 70 for the BCCIs office-bearers. What applies to other sports bodies must work for the BCCI. So too, what has been ordered upon the BCCI, could be wrought upon any other Indian sports body.An example has been made of the BCCI, until now considered well above these shambolically run associations, both financially and organisationally. No matter how much financial strength and global clout a sports body can acquire, it must work alongside with, rather than supplant, good governance, transparency and accountability.The BCCIs response in this affair from the outset - despite the presence of many weighty shining legal lights on its roster and on its side - was heavy-handed. Both in court and in the public. The boards first response was to let out a few high-volume sound bites: that the recommendations were not binding, that the BCCI was a private body and so it could not be approached as if it were a public enterprise. It was this line of argument that occupied far too much of the courts time, and must have set the judges teeth on edge.One of the more revealing parts of the order says: Neither BCCI nor anyone else has assailed the findings recorded by the Committee insofar as the deep rooted malaise that pervades in the working of the BCCI is concerned… either in the affidavits filed or in the course of arguments at the bar. Which in laymans language means that neither the BCCI nor anyone else has strongly criticised the Lodha committees findings with reference to the flaws in the BCCIs functioning, neither in written affadavits filed or verbal arguments made before the bench. The BCCI was not righteously claiming to having been unfairly criticised with reference to its functioning. What it was saying to the highest court of the country - and the highest judge in that court - was that you do not have the right to tick us off.The better option could have been to respond strategically to the Lodha committee report from the very beginning, by picking out early the recommendations they thought were the least amenable to implementation, or inconvenient, and work with that, approaching the court with humility rather than habitual hubris. They had a better chance of arguing the age limit and tenure continuity at length than they did about private vs public and the freedom of association as pertaining to the state associations. That too in a climate surrounding the BCCIs laissez faire attitude to the Goa Cricket Associations multiple scandals until the last month or so and the shenanigans of DDCA, also exposed in court.The BCCIs legal eagles should also have been able to sense two moods - that the BCCIs public image was far from the best to start with, particularly in terms of its engagement with the judiciary. Secondly, in the past few years, Indias courts have been particularly forceful in handing out judgements pertaining to governance or administration, a trend that has been referred to as judicial activism (or, in the words of policy academic Pratap Bhanu Mehta, judicial exasperation). For the BCCI it was certainly not the right time to show what would be called attitude. But show it they did.What might the BCCIs options now be? To start with, they could consider hiring a new legal team. A short-term response would be to disband the board and resume operations under a new name. Or dash off a letter to the ICC saying the Supreme Court has ordered them to accept government interference - in the form of the nominee from the Comptroller and Auditor Generals Office - at both national or state levels. Or attempt some off-court filibustering in front of Lodha to try and stall any action, till Justice Thakur retires in January and they can begin the legal roundabout all over again.But each of these counters has its counter-arguments. Besides, Mondays order says clearly that should any impediments arise the Supreme Court can be approached once again by a status report being filed.Many within the BCCI - and there are several who are well-intentioned and committed - may find their positions now rendered non-existent and their powers severely curtailed, and may well ask, How did we get here? The answer to that is simple - one mistake at a time. 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Englands new home and away kits The away kit, meanwhile, honours the 50th anniversary of Englands greatest footballing achievement - the 1966 World Cup victory at Wembley.The new strip integrates performance innovations and design details found in the white home kit, but in the unmistakable World Cup-winning red.Northern IrelandNorthern Irelands first international tournament since 1986 sees them wear this green, white and navy kit, but it hasnt gone down well with the fans.The Irish FA unveiled the £97 full strip ahead of their first European Championships in France next summer, but have faced a backlash from disgruntled supporters. Northern Irelands first international tournament since 1986 sees them wear this green, white and navy kit, but it hasnt gone down well with the fans The kit has been labelled a monstrosity and an awful mess by an online petition, with fans upset that navy blue has been included along with the traditional green and white colours, wanting something similar to when the team qualified for the World Cup in 1982 and 1986.As players, we just play in what were told to wear, said midfielder Oliver Norwood. Its always an honour to pull on any Northern Ireland shirt. Something extremely close to the Northern Ireland squads hearts is dividing the fans after qualifying for their first major tournament since 1986 Following the controversy over the home kit, the Irish FA tweeted a picture of the away kit with the message: Heres the new Northern Ireland away kit! Better….? Northern Irelands away kit is more traditional than the home kit WalesWales have kept things simple with a plain red and white effort ahead of their first major tournament since the 1958 World Cup.Their away kit is a striped black and grey strip with an electric green V-neck and adidas stripes down the shoulder. Gareth Bale models Wales kit for Euro 2016, sponsored by adidas Wales say the new away strip has taken a fresh interpretation on classic Welsh away colours of black, grey and green, each made famous by iconic kits from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.Manufactured by adidas, Gareth Bale and Co will head to France after coming second in Euro Qualifiers Group B with 21 points from their 10 games. Wales may also wear a two-tone black shirt, which features electric green detailing GermanyWorld champions Germany are looking to make it back-to-back major tournament wins in France, and will be donning a plain white and black kit made by adidas.Joachim Lows side finished top of Euro Qualifiers Group D, one point ahead of Poland, and will be looking to better their Euro 2012 show, where they were knocked out by Italy in the semi-finals. Despite Manuel Neuers poor attempt at looking threatening, Germany will wear the FIFA World Champions badge on their new kit Their away shirt is two shades of grey and also reversible, with a light green training shirt on the inside. World champions Germany will be wearing this away kit BelgiumFlooded with Premier League talent, Belgium will be looking to get past the quarter-final stage of a major tournament for the first time since 1986. Currently ranked No 1 in the world by FIFA, Marc Wilmots side qualified from Group B with 23 points out of a possible 30, and will be wearing a red, black and yellow kit manufactured by adidas. Belgium, currently ranked No 1 by FIFA, will wear their traditional colours in France They will also travel with a rather stylish away kit that has a red, black and yellow stripe around the middle. Heres the away kit for FIFAs highest-ranked team SpainThe reigning European champions will be living up to their nickname La Roja with their all-red effort in France, also made by adidas.However, their away kit, which features an unusual design of colourful triaangles, seems to have divided opinion.dddddddddddd Spains away kit has been met with a mixed reaction Vicente Del Bosques Spain had the third-best qualifying record with 27 points out of a possible 30 from Group C, behind England (30 out of 30) and Austria (28 out of 30). Iker Casillas posted this photo of the Spain team modelling their new kit ItalyItaly made the final of Euro 2012, and will be looking to go one better in France in this traditional light blue and white effort, manufactured by Puma.The four-time world champions have not been quite as successful in the European Championship, winning the tournament once in 1968. They qualified from Group H unbeaten, winning seven of their 10 games. Italy will wear their classic azure shirts at Euro 2016, again produced by Puma Their away shirt features two stripes down the middle and Torsten Hochstetter, global creative director at PUMA said: Strong Italian cultural influences inspire the design, there is such richness in the heritage of Italian football and we had a lot to work with.Giorgino Chellini tweeted the following picture and described it as Bellissima!!!: Marco Verratti, Gianluigi Buffon and Giorgio Chiellini model the away kit SwitzerlandAlso made by Puma, Switzerland take their two-tone hooped red strip to France having qualified behind England in Group E with seven wins and three defeats from their 10 games. Switzerland, currently managed by Vladimir Petkovic, have not reached the quarter-finals of a major tournament since they hosted the 1954 World Cup. Switzerlands Euro 2016 kit features subtle horizontal stripes SwedenZlatan Ibrahimovic and co booked their place at Euro 2016 with a play-off victory over Denmark.In France they will be sporting a traditional yellow home kit and a blue and grey away kit, both made by adidas. Yellow and blue make up the Sweden home shirt Zlatan and co will in France ready to model this away kit AustriaAustria had a strong qualification campaign, winning nine games and not losing a single match. It is the first time theyve qualified for a major tournament since 1998, with the exception of Euro 2008 when they were joint hosts with Switzerland.Their kit retains the same colours as usual, red with white strips down the shoulders. Marko Arnautovic (L), Ramazan Ozcan (C) and David Alaba (R) all modelling the latest Austria home kit Czech RepublicCzech Republic topped Group A of qualifying ahead of Iceland, Turkey and a lacklustre Netherlands side who wont be a part of the finals.Puma have taken the decision to remove all blue from the kit, going for a bold red look entering the tournament. Petr Cech and Co showing off Czech Republics home shirt UkraineUkraine qualified for Euro 2016 via the play-offs after playing out two legs against Slovenia which they won 3-1 on aggregate.Their kit retains a feeling of familiarity as theyve decided to stick with the all-yellow look. The most notable difference is the subtle patterning used as a backdrop. The Ukraine players showed off their new kit at a press event SlovakiaEnglands Group B opponents have never qualified for a European Championship as an independent country until this year. They came second in Group C behind Spain thanks to impressive performances from the likes of Martin Skrtel and Marek Hamsik.Slovakias shirt combining a white base with subtle hoops. Theres a blue stripe accompanied with blue sleeve cuffs and a blue round-neck collar. Englands group B opponents Slovakia looking confident in white and blue IcelandIceland were one of the Euro qualification surprise packages after finishing second in Group A ahead of Turkey and fourth-placed Netherlands, who failed to secure a place in the finals.And with their qualification success comes a new kit, with Iceland retaining their classic blue colour with the bold red strip running vertically instead of horizontally. Iceland home kit for Euro 2016 RussiaRussia left it late to qualify ahead of Sweden in Group G with a 2-0 win over Montenegro last month, and will be wearing a V-neck adidas effort in France, with the national sides crest embossed across the dark red home shirt and the white away shirt. Ahead of hosting the World Cup in 2018, Russia will be looking to better their semi-final appearance in 2008 having never previously progressed past the group stage of a major tournament. Russias adidas kit features their crest printed across the fabric The away shirt is paired with blue shorts Also See: Zlatan or Bendtner - who said it? Euro play-offs: Five to watch Euro 2016 odds International news ' ' '