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IPL asks BCCI to take final decision on IMG issue by Sep 24 | The Indian Premier League (IPL) and its commissioner Lalit Modi has asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to take a final call on whether or not to terminate the services of IMG as an organiser of the event. IPL and BCCI sources said that BCCI president Shashank Manohar will review the issue and present his report and recommendations
to the BCCI's working committee on September 24. The decision was taken to end
the chasm between two powerful BCCI officials - Lalit Modi andN Srinivasan. The
BCCI's decision to terminate the services of the IMG from IPL was seen as an attempt
to clip Modi's wings. But with seven IPL franchises and even the former BCCI president
Sharad Pawar throwing their weight behind Modi, the IPL Governing Council met
here on Wednesday and took the decision to take the matter before the BCCI Working
Committee. Earlier, a 'disturbed' Pawar reportedly snubbed Srinivasan and expressed
his disappointment in no uncertain terms in a letter addressed to Manohar. ''When
I was the board president, we signed a 10-year agreement with IMG to conceptualise,
formulate and implement a new league along with Lalit Modi and the same was approved
at all appropriate levels,'' he stated. ''IMG has been instrumental in day-to-day
operations of the league and we should come to a suitable arrangement (with IMG).
In IPL, there are many stakeholders and anything we do that may jeopardize their
investments will show BCCI in a bad light. With the overwhelming success of the
IPL, it is our duty to protect not only BCCI but also all its stakeholders,''
Pawar said. Srinivasan, the BCCI secretary, is of the view that the IMG has been
overcharging the BCCI, and therefore, its services should be terminated.
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