Contrary to speculation that his wings may be clipped, IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi is in Dubai to attend an International Cricket Council meeting on behalf of BCCI president Shashank Manohar.
Video footage in Monday's crucial disciplinary hearing is certain to go against Harbhajan Singh, who allegedly punched S Sreesanth, with IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Sunday disclosing that the camera did "pick up something".
Cricket Association of Bihar president Aditya Verma has asked the ICC to clarify on the claims made by controversial former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi that two leading Indian cricketers and a West Indian player had been bribed by an Indian real estate tycoon.
Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi on Wednesday ignored the Board of Control for Cricket in India's diktat and took another potshot at the Kochi IPL team owners. IPL chief Modi pointed out that there are still question marks over the ownership of the Kochi franchise and even some of the stakeholders were also not clear about it.
In the past, several other Indian nationals have been named in such notifications after the Swiss FTA was approached by Indian authorities for information about those people with regard to the pending tax-related probes against them.
Former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi says it is 'nonsense' to let BCCI dictate terms on the usage of Decision Review System and the ICC should ignore the Indian Board's rejection to make DRS mandatory in every international series.
The IT department which visited the offices of IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi last week had 'cloned' voluminous data on bids and financial details of various franchises from his office computers into its 'portable forensic labs' which the tax sleuths carried along.
Tainted former Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi invoked the names of British royalty, including Prince Charles and his brother Andrew, while seeking his travel papers from the United Kingdom home office, according to a media report on Sunday.
BCCI may have suspended Lalit Modi as IPL Commissioner, but the suave former chief of Twenty20 extravaganza can still be seen smiling on the website of Indian Premier League.
Under fire over allegations of foreign exchange violations in IPL, BCCI's top officials o Wednesday blamed sacked Commissioner Lalit Modi for "mistakes" as they told a Parliamentary panel that they had given approvals at his behest in "good faith".
Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi's lawyer Mehmood Abdi said that his client stands vindicated on the controversy surrounding the erstwhile Kochi franchise following outbursts by Shahshi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar who died recently.
Suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has created a flutter by claiming that he was financing Aditya Verma's petition against BCCI President-in-exile N Srinivasan and others in the IPL spot-fixing case.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's decision to form an ad-hoc body in Rajasthan Cricket Association to ensure the state's participation in domestic tournaments may lead to more legal tangles as the Lalit Modi faction in the RCA is planning to move the court against the BCCI.
Beleaguered Lalit Modi on Monday found support from Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) owner Vijay Mallya, who credited the IPL commissioner for the cash-awash Twenty20 league's mind-boggling success. Throwing his weight behind Modi, Mallya said IPL owes its success to Modi and also wondered at the hue and cry raised over trans-border transaction by some of the IPL franchisees.
The move came after a Mumbai court recently issued a non-bailable warrant against the former IPL commissioner.
Disgraced former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi has expressed a vehement stance against the new ICC decision giving "greater control" to 'Big Three'- India, Australia and England, saying that it will destroy the game.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) will not move out of India despite security fears raised by the players' associations of England, Australia and South Africa, tournament commissioner Lalit Modi insisted. Modi rejected any move to shift the IPL to another country after an independent report complied by ECB security advisor Reg Dickason claimed that safety of cricketers cannot be guaranteed during the cash-awash Twenty20 tournament.
Banned former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi again took to micro-blogging site twitter to attack BCCI president N Srinivasan accusing him of "orchestrating the retention policy" to suit his side Chennai Super Kings in the upcoming seventh edition of Indian Premier League.
Back in the reckoning to return to the Board of Control for Cricket in India after being elected president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association, banned former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi said winning the polls is the first step towards returning to the Indian cricket board.
With decks cleared for him to continue as president of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) following rival Amin pathan's withdrawal of 'No Confidence Motion', former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi in a series of tweets spoke about making the state association "transparent".
Former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi has rubbished media reports that the Indian government has sought help of British authorities to deport him from the United Kingdom, saying such stories were based on "innuendo and misinformation".
The Cricket Board-floated Indian Premier League will conduct a second players' auction next week to enable franchises, that have money left after the initial auction held on February 20, from the $ 5 million cap, supplement their player base.
A week after his bid to regain control of the Rajasthan Cricket Association failed in an acrimonious election, Lalit Modi now faces a fresh crisis with a very powerful lobby within the BCCI plotting to remove him from the Indian Premier League commissioner's post. Modi, who has successfully conducted two editions of the IPL and filled the BCCI coffers with his marketing acumen, has been having problems with some of the key BCCI functionaries for some time now.
Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday rubbished reports that he is part of the alleged campaign to remove Lalit Modi from the post of Indian Premier League commissioner. A powerful lobby within the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is bent on clipping Modi's wings and sources claimed that the move to remove Modi as the IPL commissioner and chairman is gaining momentum within the board.
Five of these have wound up since, according to records of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi proposed the name of veteran administrator I S Bindra as a possible successor to N Srinivasan, who has rejected demands for his resignation as BCCI president in the wake of arrest of his son-in-law on charges of betting in IPL.
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IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Shah Rukh Khan says, h has no clue about the allegations levelled against him by retired Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar, who has claimed that he should never have listened to the Bollywood star while joining the IPL.
Representatives of leading sports management firm IMG on Monday met BCCI's top brass in Mumbai presumably to give details of the financial dealings during suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi's tenure.
The BCCI top brass will meet officials of the sports management firm IMG on Monday to seek details of the financial dealings during suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi's tenure.
Rajasthan Royals chairman Manoj Badale on Tuesday said that there was no hidden stake in the Jaipur-based franchise in which IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi's brother-in-law has significant share of the ownership.
The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) on Wednesday formally announced that the Champions Twenty20 League will be held in India in September-October but were still undecided on the fourth participating country in the event. IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland, Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola, IPL CEO Sunder Raman and ICC's principal advisor I S Bindra held parleys to decide on the event.
Sports Minister M S Gill on Thursday ridiculed the ongoing ownership row involving the Kochi franchise in the Indian Premier League, saying it is 'just not cricket'.
The party leadership has been left red-faced following the ugly war of words between Tharoor and the IPL commissioner Lalit Modi with the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party demanding that the minister be sacked on charges of corruption and that a CBI probe be constituted into the entire IPL goings-on.
IPL Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi has donated R100,000 (Rs five lakh) to a high school in Port Elizabeth as part of the IPL's Help Educate and Teach (HEAT) initiative.
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor himself may not be a stakeholder but the lady he is reportedly planning to marry is part of the consortium which owns the Kochi franchise of the Indian Premier League, revealed IPL commissioner Lalit Modi.
Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi has threatened to sue Rendezvous Sports. The action comes after Rendevous alleged that Modi had bribed them to withdraw from the race.
Lalit Modi, former Indian Premiere League chief, on Tuesday night made explosive claims that Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje had supported in writing his immigration plea in Britain
Denying that boosting advertising revenue is the real reason behind introducing 'strategy breaks' in this year's Indian Premier League, IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Thursday said it is actually aimed at expediting the matches.
With the furore over Kochi franchise's ownership showing no signs of settling down, the IPL's Governing Council members meet here "informally" for the first time after the event's Commissioner Lalit Modi sparked the row on Twitter.
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