Key players in the IPL drama: Rajiv Shukla, Arun Jaitley, Sharad Pawar, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Shashank Manohar, N Srinivasan. ...
11:54 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Narayanaswami Srinivasan, a 67-year-old industrialist from Chennai, heads the world's richest cricket body, the Board of Control for Cricket in India. He was the BCCI Secretary till September 2011 and before that a BCCI Treasurer. Srinivasan became the cricket body's 30th President in September 2011 after Shashank Manohar's term ended. Srinivasan's term as President extends till 2014. He owns the India Cements Ltd (ICL), a major corporate entity...
01:34 PM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla on Wednesday indicated that under-fire BCCI President N Srinivasan should distance himself from the probe into the spot-fixing and betting scandal till the investigations are over. "Whatever suggestions are made by the panel, should be implemented immediately. No matter how big the person, the guilty will be punished. We have recommended to Srinivasan that he must stay away while the probe is underway. But...
11:59 AM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: In an email reply to a question posed by CNN-IBN on Sunday, former BCCI president Shashank Manohar laid out his views on what the Indian cricket board must do in the context of the present controversies and police investigations that have made sure the game is brought into disrepute. At the top of Manohar's list is the importance of the BCCI to maintain the image of cricket being...
10:17 PM, May 26, 2013
New Delhi: Former BCCI president Shashank Manohar on Sunday urged the BCCI to hand over the investigations into the IPL spot-fixing scandal to a central investigative agency which will probe all the matches of the cash-rich league. Read: Shashank Manohar's advice to the BCCI on spot-fixing "BCCI must come clean in wake of the recent spot-fixing scandal. They must cleanse the system completely and a central investigative agency must look...
09:58 PM, May 26, 2013
New Delhi: N Srinivasan has rejected the request made by some BCCI members to step down in the wake of IPL betting scandal in which his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan has been arrested and sent to police custody, sources said. Some BCCI members met the cricketing body's President and suggested former chief Shashank Manohar should replace him, sources added. Meanwhile, BCCI disciplinary committee head Arun Jaitley said BCCI will take action...
10:54 AM, May 26, 2013
New Delhi: He is defiant. He seems to have lost support overnight. And it looks like his time at the The Board Of Control For Cricket In India's (BCCI) top brass is numbered. N Srinivasan, however, maintains that he will not resign from the post of BCCI's President despite the arrest of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan in IPL betting scandal. However, sources have said that the BCCI top brass is...
01:19 PM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Shashank Manohar is now the frontrunner to be the interim chief of the organisation, which has been left in a lurch ever since the pressure on its current president, N Srinivasan, to resign has mounted, sources said. The BCCI board will meet informally ahead of the IPL 6 final in Kolkata on Sunday but the decision on Srinivasan,...
11:47 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: The latest scandal in the IPL has hit the BCCI top brass so hard that the state units have now started questioning N Srinivasan's authority and in all likelihood will seek opinion of former BCCI president Shashank Manohar on the latest fiasco. According to top BCCI officials, Manohar's advice on the way forward and his opinion on Srinivasan's "future" as the BCCI supremo will carry a lot of...
05:25 PM, May 24, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was on Saturday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Indian Premier League. Shah Rukh, who owns the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team, was quizzed by the ED for over six hours. Earlier, former cricketer Ravi Shastri and ex-BCCI chief Shashank Manohar were also questioned by the ED. They were questioned in connection with the ED probe into the irregularities in the...
06:24 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: Board Of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI) President Shashank Manohar appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday in connection with the irregularities in the second edition of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament. The ED is investigating to evaluate the powers handed to then IPL chairman Lalit Modi. The second edition of the IPL in 2009 was shifted to South Africa as it coincided with the...
02:16 PM, Aug 10, 2011
A lot of uncomfortable questions are bound to be asked as the battle between the BCCI and Modi goes on. ...
10:48 PM, Jun 05, 2010
Lalit Modi had claimed that interim IPL chief Chirayu Amin was a part of a group that bid for an IPL team. ...
03:27 PM, Jun 05, 2010
Lalit Modi claimed that both Shashank Manohar and N Srinivasan have a conflict of interests against him. ...
07:08 PM, May 25, 2010
In an impassioned speech after the IPL final, he counter punched in true Lalit Modi style. ...
09:53 PM, Apr 26, 2010
BCCI chief says RR stakeholders register does not have the names of Shipla Shetty and Raj Kundra. ...
07:44 PM, Apr 26, 2010
Even as Modi continues to be at the centre of a raging storm, support for him from the IPL franchises continues unabated. ...
06:06 PM, Apr 24, 2010
The former Indian cricket team captain is currently a member of the IPL Governing Council. ...
01:11 PM, Apr 24, 2010
The IPL commissioner says he has asked for five days more to prepare for his defence. ...
12:53 PM, Apr 24, 2010
Modi had written an email to all IPL franchises, to BCCI and IPL Governing Council members on April 14. ...
06:18 PM, Apr 21, 2010
