Calcutta: Shell out Rs 2.5 lakh and you can watch all international and IPL matches at Eden Gardens for the next five years as a 'special' member of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB).

A special members' category was proposed during the CAB's special general meeting (SGM) on Tuesday. In order to be a special member, one has to deposit the above amount along with a subscription of Rs 15,000 per annum, which entitles one tickets for all international and IPL matches at the Eden.

It was learnt that around 2,200 seats would be kept reserved for the special members' category at the L block. Forty per cent of tickets here would be slotted for the clubs, with the remaining kept for direct (including online) sale.

"There was this proposal for special members in the meeting. It's akin to the one at Lord's. It's mainly for fundraising and higher revenue. The interest (from that amount) will be distributed among clubs, universities and districts," said former Bengal player and former assistant secretary Snehasish Ganguly.

The membership will be renewable after five years.

Quite a few questions were also asked in the meeting and one among those was about the validity of the CAB trustee board, which has a place in its draft constitution. While president Sourav Ganguly claimed that the trustee board is there in the BCCI's recommendations, some others said that the Board's new constitution has no provision for it.

"The trustee board will stay. It's there in the BCCI recommendations. People who stand qualified will stay in the trustee board, those disqualified won't," Sourav said.

Confusion over Usha Nath Banerjee, who had resigned from the Ombudsman's post, has also surfaced. The CAB brass wants Banerjee back as Ombudsman, even though it was learnt that he's undecided about coming back.

"We want Usha da back. He's a nice man," Sourav said.

But a former CAB official later said: "The new order says that in order to be the Ombudsman of a state body, one has to be a former CJI of the High Court. The person who had been here as the Ombudsman doesn't qualify then.

"When the president was asked about it in the meeting, he said we need to be open-minded in this matter."