New Delhi:
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) bigwigs met in Mumbai in an informal meeting on Saturday. This is no doubt in preparation for the April 26 Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council meeting for which Lalit Modi has asked for 5 more days. But the BCCI it seems is in no mood to give him any extra time.
It would really be fair to say that the BCCI officials are perhaps the busiest lot of people right now. Board Bigwigs like Shashank Manohar, N Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah met in Mumbai today.
Top of the agenda of-course was how to deal with Lalit Modi, who has asked for 5 extra days to prepare his case.
Modi's fate as the big boss of the IPL looks likely to be sealed. But Modi continues to be defiant. On Saturday afternoon he tweeted: "People pressurising me to resign - I can tell you will not happen. Let them remove me then.Truth will prevail soon. Trial by media and no chance to present the facts is like the wild west. Wait and the facts will be delivered."
In his latest tweet Modi says, "Wait for IPL to finish. I'll reveal the men who've tried to bring disrepute to the game and how we stopped them from doing it." (
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Modi has been adamant about not resigning so far.
And as the IPL controversy gets murkier, former Union minister Shashi Tharoor in his tweet has said,"Looking forward to thorough inquiry into the IPL. If my resignation leads to real reform, it will be worthwhile. Our cricket should be clean."
Modi has said he won't resign. In fact, he's not attending the meeting, he insists. The IPL and its parent body, the BCCI have said that won't stop them from sacking him. (
Read: Modi wants to cancel critical IPL meeting, questions its legality)
Modi had earlier said that he wanted the meeting to be postponed because he is busy with the last few matches of the current IPL season. This argument won favour with at least one governing council member, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who told NDTV that Modi's request was not illogical, but that he should present it in person at the meeting. (
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