Jamshedpur/Ranchi, Nov. 25: Jharkhand will stop receiving funds and grants from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) if the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) is not deemed to be affiliated to the board.

That is one of the implications of the ruling given yesterday by T.N. Krishnamurthy, the special observer appointed by the Supreme Court to oversee the BCCI election on November 29.

He recognised the Bihar Cricket Association as the duly affiliated body.

The other implication is that Jharkhand will have to wait for three more years before participating in senior tournaments like the Ranji Trophy.

Ironically, the JSCA was formed in 2004, granted affiliation the same year and the state was allowed to participate in the Ranji Trophy, disallowing the rule that a new state association would have to conduct junior tournaments for three years before getting the affiliation.

The confusion over the cricket body was apparently created by the game?s administrators in the state.

After the state was created in 2000, two parallel associations, the BCA and the Cricket Association of Jharkhand (CAJ), functioned for some time before the former, with its headquarters at Jamshedpur, was dissolved.

However, the same administrators for some time revived the BCA under the name and style of the BCA (1935) solely in order to host a one-day international match.

Once that was over, the BCA (1935) was dissolved and the JSCA (Jharkhand State Cricket Association) was formed.

Notwithstanding such confusion, sources close to JSCA president Amitabh Chowdhary claimed Chowdhary in any case will cast his vote in the BCCI election on November 29 because he continues to be the president of ?both the associations?.

How he can be the president of a dissolved body was left unanswered.

The cricket muddle is accentuated by the fact that players from Bihar are being forced to play for Jharkhand in various tournaments because the BCCI had derecognised the association.