BCCI's offer to Supreme Court: N Srinivasan will step down for time-bound IPL probe

N Srinivasan

Under fire from Supreme Court of India, BCCI has offered a proposal to the apex body, saying that its head N Srinivasan will step down from his post to allow a fair probe into the IPL-fixing scam.

According to reports from NDTV, BCCI put forward this proposal today when SC is set to hear the case of IPL fixing scam. Hoping that a time-bound inquiry is set up in this matter, BCCI also requested the court to allow Srinivasan to continue his role as cricket administrator at the international level.

Srinivasan is set to become the first chairman of the International Cricket Council later this year, and BCCI is hoping that this domestic issue doesn’t affect his chances to take over that position.

Earlier in the week, Supreme Court had termed Srinivasan’s refusal to step down as BCCI President during the IPL probe as “nauseating”. The Justice Mudgal committee, which was commissioned by the Supreme Court to investigate in the matter, had linked Gurunath Meiyappan to illegal betting in IPL.

Meiyappan is the son-in-law of Srinivasan and also held an important position in the Chennai Super Kings management, the franchise owned India Cements whose Managing Director is the BCCI President himself.

It is an important day for BCCI and the ones named in the Mudgal Committee report which was submitted to the Supreme Court. This offer by BCCI to let Srinivasan step down in order to save his neck at the international level, may have been driven by the hardened stand taken by the courts recently against the cricket administrators.