The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is set to file a criminal case against suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi, reports said on Friday.
The Shashi Tharoor-Lalit Modi stand-off over the Kochi IPL team reached the Supreme Court on Tuesday with a petition seeking a CBI probe into the Union Minister's alleged proxy stakes in the Rs 1533-crore franchise, won by a consortium, Rendezvous Sports World. Alternatively, the petition urged the apex court to constitute a special investigation team to probe the allegations.
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi gave state officials in Jaipur a piece of his mind for harassing the Rajasthan Royals' team management.
The Indian Premier League spent over 55 crore in opening and closing ceremonies, entertainment and hospitality when the Twenty20 League was held in South Africa last year, with now suspended Lalit Modi at its helm. The cost of the opening and closing ceremonies, which was 7.36 crore in the inaugural edition of IPL in 2008 in India, rose to Rs 18.37 crore, according to the statement of accounts presented on Friday at the IPL Governing Council's meeting in Mumbai.
American magazine FastCompany has ranked IPL 22nd among the list of the world's 50 most innovative companies for 2010.
Pune and Kochi are the two teams for the forthcoming editions of the Indian Premier League, commissioner Lalit Modi announced in Chennai, on Sunday. Sahara successfully won the Pune franchise after they bid the highest amount of US $370 million, while the Kochi team was won by a consortium Rendezvous Sports for a whopping amount of $333 million.
BCCI's Disciplinary Committee meets in New Delhi on Sunday for the third time to continue its probe into alleged financial irregularities by suspended IPL chief Lalit Modi, who would once again seek the recusal of Chirayu Amin and Arun Jaitley from the panel.
Lalit Modi's attorney Mehmood Abdi on Tuesday said he will push for a neutral Supreme Court judge on the Board of Control for Cricket in India's disciplinary panel that is probing alleged financial irregularities by the suspended IPL chairman in the running of the T20 event.
Lalit Modi believes that his brainchild, the IPL, can overtake NBA and NFL in terms of popularity and money.
Suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi will have to face the music if he is found guilty of corruption, according to ICC President Sharad Pawar who on Sunday made it clear that there was no question of 'protecting' his one-time protege.
The Indian Premier League on Tuesday conceded that the boycott of the third edition of the Twenty20 tournament by the Indian news channels will continue after their new demands with regards to use of footage was turned down by the organisers.
Indian Premier League (IPL) has a rather surprising request for fans -- stay in hotels other than Taj Hotels run by top corporate house Tata, saying even the teams are not staying there. Arguably the most controversial cricket administrator IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, said in a post on micro-blogging social networking website Twitter that IPL is "not using Taj Hotels in any city."
Twenty20 will surpass all other formats of the game and Test cricket will simply disappear if it doesn't go day-night, predicted Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi. Modi, the mastermind behind the cash-awash IPL and a relentless champion of the Twenty20 format, has no doubt whatsoever that cricket's shortest format will rule the roost, overshadowing both Test and ODI cricket.
Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi has ridiculed the safety concerns raised by it but the Australian Cricketers Association claims to have made 'some positive progress' in getting its players' security demands met by the IPL organisers.
Indian Premier League supremo Lalit Modi has accused player unions of using a security threat against overseas players as leverage to gain bargaining status with the IPL and the Indian cricket board.
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said letters written to British authorities on Lalit Modi case during UPA rule should be released as they will answer the former IPL Commissioner's accusations against him and Congress.
Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi sought to assuage fears of a players' boycott of the third edition of the Twenty20 tournament, to be held in India from March 12, by saying that he has spoken to all the foreign parties concerned and reassured them on their security-related concerns.
Champions League Twenty20, beginning in Bangalore on October, will see 12 teams from seven nations play each other to emerge as Champion of Champions. Tournament chairman Lalit Modi believes the tournament will emerge as the biggest entertainment property in the sport, and enable cricket make a major foray in football-crazy European nations.
Lalit Modi's fate would be on top of the agenda when the BCCI's general body meets in Mumbai on Saturday for a special sitting which is expected to take the first step towards the suspended IPL Commissioner's eventual expulsion from the Board.
After his friend Amitabh Bachchan became Gujarat's brand ambassador, expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Tuesday said Chief Minister Narendra Modi could be "loved or hated but not ignored".
A day after the Board of Control for Cricket in India denied that Sunil Gavaskar is due any payment for his term as an Indian Premier League Governing Council member, suspended chairman of the Twenty20 league Lalit Modi said the former India captain had always been forthright in his dealings and never known to lie.
Raising the ante against N Srinivasan, suspended IPL chairman Lalit Modi has asked for the BCCI secretary's recusal from the proceedings against him and demanded that the issue of his suspension be placed before the general body of the Cricket Board.
A brewer, a sugar baron and a cement maker are among the most influential people in Indian sport, according to a recent power list, elbowing out some of the country's biggest sports stars themselves. What's more, the power brokers not only make the rules in India but are also wielding greater influence abroad, from cricket pitches to Formula One tracks, according to Sports Illustrated India.
Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi on Saturday rejected safety concerns raised by Players' Associations of Australia and New Zealand, saying that the IPL is in touch with the respective Boards on the security arrangements for the event.
Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns has finally acted on his threat to sue Lalit Modi and has initiated legal action against the suspended IPL commissioner for suggesting that he was involved in match-fixing.
Without mentioning Lalit Modi's name, the England and Wales Cricket Board has warned its counties against holding discussions with "suspended" officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
N Srinivasan, currently the Cricket Board's secretary, is all set to be elevated as the next president-elect at the BCCI's 81st Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday.
The defamation suit filed by sports management firm IMG against Giles Clarke could cost the England Cricket Board chief a whopping 20 million.
Lalit Modi's defence against BCCI's show cause notice got a boost on Thursday with the cricket board assuring the suspended IPL Commissioner that only documentary proofs provided on charges levelled against him would be used in the proceedings.
Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi threatened to terminate contracts of Australian players and ban state sides from the Champions League Twenty20 if they fail to release their players for the third edition of the IPL next year. Dates of the last round of the Australia's domestic competition -- Sheffield Shield -- and the mega BCCI event are clashing but Modi wants the state sides to release their contracted players for the competition.
Event management company IMG on Saturday denied charges that it was involved in planning a 'rebel' Twenty20 league in England in conjunction with suspended Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi, who was sent a show cause notice on this count by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
It is a blessing that Prime Minister Narendra Modi "spends some time in the country also", Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday.
A critic of the event since its inception, former England captain Nasser Hussain has once again lashed out at the IPL and said the recent controversy surrounding the league has proved that no tournament was bigger than the game.
In a move that can be viewed as cutting down the vast powers enjoyed previously by the Indian Premier League, the Cricket Board has decided to limit the IPL Governing Council's tenure from five years to one.
The success of the IPL was not because of Lalit Modi alone, according to a top BCCI official, who reckons the Twenty20 league will continue to flourish without the suspended Commissioner as cricket sells itself in India.
Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi on Tuesday said the unavailability of Pakistani players for the third edition of the Twenty20 extravaganza was unfortunate as some exciting players will miss the action.
The British media on Tuesday acknowledged that suspended IPL chairman Lalit Modi realised Twenty20's potential in a huge and growing Indian market but said his downfall will not be mourned.
Contrary to reports of strained relations between them, industrialist K K Modi on Tuesday extended financial support to his son, suspended Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi, although he said the problems were not unexpected.
Australia Twenty20 skipper Michael Clarke hopes that the Indian Premier League can survive Monday's dramatic suspension of Lalit Modi by the BCCI, after allegations of corruption and match-fixing surfaced.
BCCI CAO Ratnakar Shetty said suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi did not provide the Board with original papers of some of the contracts, including those of three losing bids in the inaugural IPL and media rights deal with Multi Screen Media.
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