IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Sunday circulated the agenda for Monday's Governing Council meeting, asking the members to give their complaints against him in writing and with supporting documents.
Knives are out for Lalit Modi and the IPL Governing Council is set to sack him as chairman in a potentially volatile meeting on Monday after being rattled by Indian cricket's biggest financial scandal in recent memory.
Suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Tuesday strongly objected to the Board of Control for Cricket in India referring him as "then chairman" while announcing the appointment of an advisor to interim chairman Chirayu Amin.
One of the three county clubs which were allegedly in talks with suspended IPL chief Lalit Modi to start a 'rebel' Twenty20 league in England, Yorkshire has denied the allegations insisting that there was 'nothing underhand' about the idea.
A combative Lalit Modi on Monday sought to put up a brave face after being suspended as chairman of the Indian Premier League, maintaining he is still the boss of the Twenty20 league and merely relieved of his post for the time being. In what appeared to be a veiled threat, Modi broke his silence since his late night suspension with yet another tweet that has been his mode of communication of late.
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.
The noose tightened further around Lalit Modi on Friday with the Indian Premier League Governing Council member Farooq Abdullah saying that the suspended commissioner of the Twenty20 league committed "major irregularities" during his days in the office.
Indian Premier League commissioner and BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi was on Friday appointed as chairman of the board of Champions League Twenty20, the cricket boards of India, Australia and South Africa said in a joint statement. The decision was taken at a meeting of the three founding member boards -- the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket South Africa (CSA)-- in Dubai.
A decision whether England or South Africa will host the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be taken by Tuesday night, IPL chairman Lalit Modi said in Mumbai on Monday night. Modi said he has already spoken to Cricket South Africa chief Gerald Majola and will hold detailed talks with him in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning.
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.
Congress on Monday accused Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje of "forcible, illegal occupation" of the Dholpur Palace along with Lalit Modi through a private company.
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".
BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi said two or three Australian players have already signed up with IPL and more are likely in the next 24 hours.
The Lalit Modi-BCCI feud has proved costly for Sunil Gavaskar, as the batting legend's payments for the work he did as an IPL Governing Council member yet to be released.
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.
With the public showdown between Lalit Modi and minister Shashi Tharoor over the Kochi franchise snowballing into a major controversy, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has decided to convene a meeting of the IPL Governing Council within 10 days to discuss and take a decision on the episode.
The two-day hearing of the Cricket Board's Disciplinary Committee probing allegations of financial irregularities against former IPL chairman Lalit Modi, which was scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday, in New Delhi, has been put off to next month.
The BCCI vice-president snubbed the Indian Cricket League as a set of "glorified exhibition matches".
Champions League commissioner Lalit Modi on Thursday dismissed allegations that the England and Wales Cricket Board was not consulted before finalising the dates of the T20 event and asked the ECB to tweak its county schedule.
Suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi's lawyer Mehmood Abdi on Thursday backtracked on his "khap panchayat" comment against the BCCI's Special General Meeting, saying his statement was misconstrued and neither he nor his client intended to "belittle" the Board.
IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi in his most candid interview yet. Courtesy CNN Talk Asia.
Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi said the Twenty20 tournament is designed in such a way that even while teams have a maximum of ten foreign players, only four can play in a match.
The Enforcement Directorate is likely to book former IPL chairman Lalit Modi under the stringent Prevention of Money Laundering Act, which gives the Directorate the power to arrest and attach properties.
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.
The Chennai Police has once again summoned suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi and other people in connection with a funds misappropriation case, giving them time till February 15 to appear before it for inquiry.
Suspended IPL chairman Lalit Modi has taken strong exception to the presence of BCCI secretary N Srinivasan at the disciplinary committee proceeding against him which are in progress in Delhi, his lawyer Mehmood Abdi said.
With panel member Jyotiraditya Scindia unable to attend due to illness, Tuesday's hearing of the Board of Control for Cricket in India's Disciplinary Committee, probing charges of financial irregularities against suspended Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi, was suspended till evening.
Former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi on Wednesday termed the Board of Control for Cricket in India "money minded" and said the board's decision to impose a fine of $50,000 on Rajasthan Royals skipper Shane Warne was uncalled for.
In more trouble for Indian Premier League chief Lalit Modi, a case of cheating was on Sunday lodged against him for alleged failure to deposit money he publicly promised for the Jaipur blast victims in the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.
Suspended Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi on Thursday asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to provide him attendance sheet of the recent disciplinary committee meetings held in Mumbai and Delhi to ascertain whether the presence of BCCI secretary N Srinivasan had been recorded in it.
Suspended Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi on Saturday handed over to the Board of Control for Cricket in India all the relevant documents relating to the Twenty20 League, sources close to him said.
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".
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.
Embroiled in a series of legal battles, and facing dissent in his home association, Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi has threatened to shift the Twenty20 matches out of Jaipur, saying the recent FIRs lodged against him are 'politically motivated'. Modi said he has been authorised by the IPL Governing council to decide on the venue of the IPL matches and shifting them from Jaipur is an option being considered.
The Lalit Modi faction remains confident of a thumping victory in the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) elections which were in Jaipur on Thursday but they will have to wait till January 6 for the results.
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.
Sharad Pawar came out in support of IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, saying there was nothing wrong in making public names of the stakeholders of the Kochi franchise.
Taking a confrontational stand, a defiant Lalit Modi on Saturday refused to resign from his post of Indian Premier League commissioner and dared the Board of Control for Cricket in India to sack him. Modi said he is being pressurised to quit his position but insisted that will fight his case to the hilt.
With the much-hyped Indian Premier League facing the hurdle of consolidating a place in the cricket calendar, its chairman Lalit Modi confessed that a second season for the star-studded Twenty20 competition is not possible for the next four years. After inaugurating the IPL, to be played from April 18 to June 1 between eight franchise teams, Modi said first space needs to be found for the 'Champions Twenty20.
Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who is on a brief visit to the city, has already signed up for the Indian Premier League and is available to go under the hammer at the players' auction on Wednesday, IPL chief Lalit Modi said on Tuesday.
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