Ban N. Srinivasan, re-auction CSK: Lalit Modi

Lalit Modi

With Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of the BCCI President and Managing Director of India Cements N.Srinivasan, being indicted in the IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal by Justice Mukul Mudgal-led probe committee, former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has demanded for a life-ban on N. Srinivasan and re-auctioning of the India cements owned franchise Chennai Super Kings.

Given below is a statement from Lalit Modi himself.

Monday, 10th February, London: With the Supreme Court-instituted Justice Mudgal committee indicting Gurunath Meiyappan in the IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal, I demand a life ban on his father-in-law and BCCI President N Srinivasan. It is high time that the global cricket establishment woke up to and also buried the entire India Cement team that has taken over world cricket. As we have seen nothing good can come from such a corrupt and power hungry regime. I am also happy to see the system of natural justice prevail and glad to see that Justice Mudgal report confirm, just what I have been saying for so long. A Life ban on all connected is a must and I hope that with this Mr Srinivasan’s days as the future warlord of cricket are short lived. I have (been) reviewing a copy of the Mudgal Committee report and will give a line by line response within a day’s time on my blog. But in the meantime, given these developments I would like to see the CSK team annulled from all future IPL activity including the forthcoming auctions and the 2014 Season as per rules.

Additionally I think the time is also ripe to make some deep, incisive and sweeping changes to ensure that there is no systemic failure in the future. First and foremost I think it is time to disband the IPL Governing Council to ensure that any and all elements of bias are removed. It is time for a new Supervising Board with all the stakeholders of the IPL on it to take charge, run and govern the league. The new Supervising Board with all stakeholders on board should be responsible for conducting and running the tournament albeit at an arms length. Next and more importantly the immediate need of the hour is to re-auction a new Chennai team. Even more important is to redo the player auction without any player retention. As we all know that the current retention rules all favour one and only one team namely CSK.

Lastly, I think it is critical that the old rules that we had framed are brought back into contention to avoid any similar issues in the future.