Former BCCI president Shashank Manohar today said that the Board did not take any timely steps to clean up the mess in the Indian Premier League and now it has no choice but to comply with Lodha Committee's recommendations.

"The BCCI has done nothing to improve its image and now the Board has no option but to implement Lodha Committee's findings," Manohar told reporters in Kolkata.

He insisted that the BCCI's indifference compelled the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee to take action. "There has been no action from the BCCI to clean the mess and the Board's work is done by the court. The BCCI has to be proactive and look at the interest of the institution and not that of an individual in order to re-impose faith in the minds of the people," Manohar, who met the current BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya, said.

Manohar criticised N Srinivasan, saying that the Tamil Nadu strongman should have stepped down as BCCI president when the spot-fixing scandal first broke out in 2013. "Srinivasan should have stepped down in 2013, no individual is ahead of institution and he too is the root of all scandal and should immediately step down from his position as chairman of ICC," he said.