Lalit Modi: Ex-IPL chief involved in planning rival group to ICC

According to sources, the agency could also seek Mr Modi’s extradition by sending a request to the External Affairs ministry in this regard.

“We’re talking about another cricketing system”.

Congress leader Kapil Sibal told the media on Monday evening that Narendra Modi as the then chief minister of Gujarat, along with the present BJP president Amit Shah, was “apparently involved in manipulating bids with the help of Lalit Modi to ensure that the Gujarat Cricket Association “favours an industrialist friend of his (Narendra Modi) with an IPL franchise”. This is the first time that Lalit Modi has accepted such things during an interview in all these years who said to have worked on this plan for years together. A hundred and thirty eight years after test cricket began, it is the same handful of former colonies that play the game at a seriously competitive level.

Modi, a controversial figure, lives in virtual exile in England.

He asked if the Congress agreed with Lalit Modi on his allegations concerning Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

According to sources, Mumbai zone of the ED officially moved for a “Red Corner Notice” (RCN) against Modi on the basis of a non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued recently by a special court. Modi is accused of laundering money in awarding television rights of the IPL 2009.

On July 3, the enforcement agency summoned Modi and directed him to appear in person before the ED within 15 days.

Modi did not try to hide his sentiments for Srinivasan or the body he represents. The money that these three generate basically runs world cricket so the rest of the nations won’t dare upset the cart, it’s argued.

“I guarantee you that, sitting here today”.

“I have been proposing that (affiliation with the Olympic movement)”.

“If I say I’d never take it and all of a sudden I do, it looks stupid on your behalf”. It is a plan that one day, if I ever implement it, will re-write history in sport. This blunt lesson in the logic of post-colonial cricket capitalism is accompanied by an education in the murky politics and dodgy economics of cricket in India, with its intricate deal-making, black-market betting and IPL spot-fixing scandals. “I think this will re-write history once again”, he concluded.

Never shy of courting controversy, Modi also revealed that his “plan” doesn’t have room for One-Day Internationals (ODI), which he deems redundant in the current scheme of things. “It requires a few billion dollars, I don’t think it would be a problem”. “But it could be done”, the 49-year-old said.