BCCI to decide CSK, RR’s fate

The players could be re-auctioned and go to other teams, skip the tournament for the next two years or could be transferred to other teams.

“Those verdicts handed down were the result of about 18 months’ worth of court work and lawyer work, no-one really had any idea and I think that’s why there is shock around the severity of the punishment because I don’t think the franchises were preparing themselves to be suspended. Both the owners of the team are banned for life from doing any cricket activity carried by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

“If it were me, you ask me at a personal level, I would expect nothing less than termination”.

“The integrity of the game is what matters”, added Lodha who is a former chief justice.

A committee led by Justice Mukul Mudgal investigated corruption in the Twenty20 league and the Lodha committee was subsequently formed to determine the appropriate punishment. While these elements supposedly help glamourise the event, they also provide an opportunity for the infamous Indian underworld to flex its muscles.

Mehra feels that it has been the teams that have been banned and thinking that only owners have been banned is a myopic way of looking at the order. “The faith of cricket fans is important and needs to be restored in the interest of the game”, a PepsiCo India spokesperson said in a statement.

As per the BCCI rules, the president’s term is for three years and a new president can take over only if the current chief steps down and fresh elections are held.

“Eventually justice is going to prevail”.

Fleming said the suspensions recommended by the India Supreme Court on Tuesday caught him by surprise. And the time is now. In fact, it is learnt that the CSK team management may challenge the verdict.

The 75-year-old Dalmiya might be replaced at the Indian cricket board’s Annul General Meeting in September. “It’s a gentleman’s game”. This lack of empathy should encourage officials to investigate them as well. “They don’t want WWE in the name of cricket”. A full copy of the the report will be sent to BCCI, who then have the option of challenging the judgement with the bench that initially constituted the Lodha committee.

Payments do invariably turn up, and that is one reason New Zealand Players’ Association boss Heath Mills is not losing sleep over the issue. “Any person who has true passion for the game would not be involved in betting”.

The IPL Scandal first came into notice in May 2013. But it has been continuously dogged by corruption allegations and Hiken Shah, a player from Mumbai, was suspended indefinitely on Monday over an approach he made to an unnamed team-mate before this year’s tournament in April-May.

“The biggest import of the Lodha report is that the shield BCCI has always used to cover itself with, that it is a private society which owes allegiance to itself, has been busted”.