The Committee, appointed by the Supreme Court, recommended installing age and term limits on certain positions within the BCCI, including the President, vice-president, secretary, joint secretary and treasurer.

Each office bearer will serve a maximum of three years, while the President should be no older than 70.

The 159-page report proposed sweeping reforms to the governing body, which has been laden with controversy in recent years, as well as suggesting the legalisation of betting in the country in a bid to stamp out match-fixing and corruption.

The issue of betting remains a serious concern within Indian cricket and was one of the main reasons for the report into the BCCI, the world's richest national cricket governing body.

The report was commissioned after Indian Premier League (IPL) chief operating officer Sundar Raman was implicated in a spot-fixing and betting scandal in 2013, where inside information was allegedly given to bookies in order to fix matches.

The Lodha Committee have cleared Raman of all charges due to a lack of evidence.

Gurunath Meiyappan, former team prinicipal of IPL franchise the Chennai Super Kings and son-in-law of former ICC chairman N Srinivasan, was earlier handed a lifetime ban for illegal betting.

The Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals were both suspended from the IPL for two-years in July.

Other notable proposals include appointing a chief executive, who will lead an Apex Council comprised of eight other members - five should be elected, two should be representatives of players association, and one woman.

The IPL, the world’s leading Twenty20 competition which attracts players from across the globe, and the BCCI should also have separate governing bodies, according to the Committee.

One association of each state will be a full member and have right to vote in BCCI elections and they also recommended a Players’ Association be established, encompassing all those who have played first-class cricket.

The Lodha Committee, made up of Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha, Justice Ashok Bhan and Justice RV Raveendran, said the BCCI should be brought under the Right of Information Act, something which they have opposed in the past, in an attempt to improve the transparency of the organisation.

“As regards the office bearers of BCCI - President, VP, secretary, joint secretary and treasurer - certain eligibility criteria has been fixed,” Justice Lodha said.

“He must be an Indian, he must not be above age of 70, he must not be insolvent, he must not be a Minister or Government servant, and who has not held office in the BCCI for a cumulative period for nine years.

“Some of the things we discussed with Shashank Manohar, he immediately put those into action."

The recommendations are not yet legally binding, however, and such an order must come from the Supreme Court of India.