Published: Aug 28, 2015, 05:24 PM (IST)
Edited: Aug 29, 2015, 01:36 AM (IST)
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) working committee meeting turned into a dramatic scene when the members adjourned it minutes after it started on Friday evening due to the presence of former chief N Srinivasan. This is not surprising for the reason that the officials had already suggested that they were not keen on having him in the crucial meeting that was organized in order to chalk out a road map for the troubled league where the main discussion will revolve around the future of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), which have been suspended for two years by the Lodha committee. READ: BCCI members do not want N Srinivasan to attend working committee meeting
According to a report from Cricinfo, soon after lunch, a message was passed on by the BCCI hierarchy that he should not be attending the meeting considering the Supreme Court is yet to suggest administrative reforms to the BCCI. Srinivasan, who had just arrived at the five-star hotel in Kolkata, then clarified he was well within his rights to represent Tamil Nadu Cricket Association.
Srinivasan is also understood to have told the members that he was not going to attend the meeting to “hatch eggs” but in order to contribute to the BCCI administration in whatever way he could. It was eventually agreed that Srinivasan would recuse himself from IPL-related discussion to avoid any more legal tangle. He also met the chairman of Indian Premier League (IPL) Rajiv Shukla, BCCI legal advisor Ushanath Banerjee and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry, thereby explaining the others that his position as the managing director of India Cements Ltd was not going to be a conflict of interest since India Cements is actually a respondent along with the BCCI in the Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd’s writ petition against the suspension. READ– IPL spot-fixing: Aditya Verma urges Dalmiya to keep N Srinivasan away from working
