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| 'Either you go or we go,' BCCI vice |
| 'Either you go or we go,' BCCI vice-presidents reportedly tell chief N Srinivasan
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| INDIA
, 1-June-2013
2:59:13 AM |
| An ultimatum has allegedly been delivered to N Srinivasan, the powerful head of India's top and the world's richest cricketing body. "Either you go or we go,' is reportedly what the five vice-presidents of the Board of Control for Cricket in India or BCCI have told Mr Srinivasan, whose son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested on May 24 on charges of betting on Indian Premier League (IPL) matches.
Among the vice-presidents who have taken on the chief is BJP leader Arun Jaitley who heads the Delhi and District Cricket Association. "You'll hear something significant today," he said this morning.
However, sources say, Mr Srinivasan remains adamant that he will not resign despite the scandal based on police allegations of betting and spot-fixing during the recently-concluded sixth edition of IPL, the massively-popular Twenty20 league, which ended on May 26 with the Mumbai Indians winning the annual tournament.
Mr Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was Team Principal of the Chennai Super Kings franchise, which means he was an important member of the team's management. But, once he was arrested, the franchise distanced itself from him and said he was just an 'honorary member'. Mr Srinivasan has said that he was not aware of his son-in-law's alleged betting activities.
But his stand was severely undermined yesterday when sources in the Mumbai Police shared phone transcripts from April that reveal Mr Meiyappan telling small-time Bollywood actor Vindu Dara Singh, also under arrest for betting, that the anti-corruption unit of the International Cricket Council had warned him to be careful about the company he keeps.
Mr Srinivasan and other senior members of the BCCI say that the warning may have been issued directly by the ICC to Mr Meiyappan and that they were not aware of any conversation that suggested the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, which looks out for illegal betting and match-fixing,
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