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Cairns is welcome to sue me: Lalit Modi | Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi today defended the IPL's decision not to include Chris Cairns in the auction over alleged match fixing allegations, and said that
the former New Zealand all rounder is free to sue him. Hitting back at the Kiwi
all rounder, Modi said: "Cairns is welcome to sue me if he wants." Modi rejected
Cairns application to feature in the auction for IPL-3 because of his dismissal
from the rival Indian Cricket League in 2008 over alleged match fixing charges.
Cairns said: "The allegation made by Lalit Modi that I have been involved in match
fixing is scandalous and wholly untrue. For him to circulate such a falsehood
around the world is outrageous. Modi's allegation has caused me huge personal
distress and professional damage." "I cannot allow these slurs to ruin my future
and I have instructed my solicitors, Collyer Bristow LLP, to bring proceedings
for defamation against Modi," The Sydney Morning Herald quoted him, as saying.
Earlier Modi had said on Cairns: "Legally you may be correct. But he has a stigma
around him for the same and as such the governing council has decided to withdraw
his name from the auction. "Our tournament is by invitation only and as such we
take issues at anything to do with match-fixing very seriously. Similarly Dinesh
Mongia will not be allowed. We have zero tolerance for anything to do with the
subject and as such will not like to take any chances if we don't have to." Cairns
and Mongia were sacked from the ICL for disciplinary reasons. Cairns, who was
captain of the Chandigarh Lions, has maintained the reason for his dismissal was
because he came into the tournament without declaring he had an existing foot
injury that did not allow him to bowl. Mongia is said to have been aware of Cairns'
injury so he too was fired. |
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