28/04/2010
Vadodara: Chirayu Amin, the interim chief of the Indian Premier League (and CMD of Amlembic Chemicals, the makers of the popular cough syrup Glycodin) on Tuesday promised a “bigger, better and transparent” tournament next year, but without the glitzy — and controversial — post-match parties introduced by suspended commissioner Lalit Modi.
The fate of the cheerleaders, an integral part of IPL's glamour but sometimes criticised for being against "Indian culture" was, however, still undecided. "I am not sure about the cheerleaders but one thing I can surely say is that from next season there won't be any IPL nights," Amin told a news conference here on Tuesday.
The "clean up" of the IPL had started, and the "small storm" would pass, Amin said. The present crisis would not be able to dent the brand image of one of the most expensive sporting affairs in the world, he said.
"We have started the investigation in right earnest. We will make IPL bigger than what it is. Cricket is a religion in the country and it would continue to be so. My job as the chairman IPL is to manage the affairs and bring it up to the Governing Council, deliberate with them, and to take decision with consensus", Amin said.
"The job has just started and I am getting involved in it. We have a great team in the management and we are confident that the cricket-loving people of India and the world will not be disappointed.
"The show will go on. The game of cricket is important and that's a fact no one can deny. Our job is to nurse it and bring it to people. Our job is to manage the IPL in a transparent manner and make sure that we have clarity, transparency, and take care of the people at large, take care of the players and franchisees as well."
The "IPL management" is "under the scanner", Amin said, but "cricketing aspects are not under any questions". The new chairman said he was "not ready to accept this job but it was thrust on" him. "Ultimately I was prevailed upon and I took it up."
On his style of working, Amin said, "You can manage business in different styles, every one has their own style, flamboyance has nothing to do with cricket. Cricket is leisure if you present it in right spirit."
'Flamboyance' is a word that has been repeatedly used in the context of Modi's style of running the IPL, and was considered his trademark manner.
Source: The Indian Express
K.Venugopal
#1
Wednesday, 28 April 2010 10:33:31
The whole thing is a farce - making just one man, Lalit Modi, the fall guy. If IPL is only a sub-committee of the BCCI, as reiterated by the BCCI President, then the entire BCCI should have faced the sack. But the BCCI was prepared to carry out the Congress one-point agenda - to get rid of Lalit Modi for exposing Sonia Gandhi's blue eyed boy Shashi Tharoor. It is shameless that the BCCI President gives a clean chit to Sharad Pawer at his very first interview after sacking Lalit Modi. Who is he to give clean chits and on what basis has he done that? I think the whole lot should be sacked and an adhoc BCCI should be formed under someone neutral and yet well known, like Rajdeep Sardesai, who has both knowledge of cricket and proven administrative abilities. Unless something like this is done, it will be game as usual with everything swept under the carpet and Lalit Modi the scapegoat.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3864168&page=0
Vadodara: Chirayu Amin, the interim chief of the Indian Premier League (and CMD of Amlembic Chemicals, the makers of the popular cough syrup Glycodin) on Tuesday promised a “bigger, better and transparent” tournament next year, but without the glitzy — and controversial — post-match parties introduced by suspended commissioner Lalit Modi.
The fate of the cheerleaders, an integral part of IPL's glamour but sometimes criticised for being against "Indian culture" was, however, still undecided. "I am not sure about the cheerleaders but one thing I can surely say is that from next season there won't be any IPL nights," Amin told a news conference here on Tuesday.
The "clean up" of the IPL had started, and the "small storm" would pass, Amin said. The present crisis would not be able to dent the brand image of one of the most expensive sporting affairs in the world, he said.
"We have started the investigation in right earnest. We will make IPL bigger than what it is. Cricket is a religion in the country and it would continue to be so. My job as the chairman IPL is to manage the affairs and bring it up to the Governing Council, deliberate with them, and to take decision with consensus", Amin said.
"The job has just started and I am getting involved in it. We have a great team in the management and we are confident that the cricket-loving people of India and the world will not be disappointed.
"The show will go on. The game of cricket is important and that's a fact no one can deny. Our job is to nurse it and bring it to people. Our job is to manage the IPL in a transparent manner and make sure that we have clarity, transparency, and take care of the people at large, take care of the players and franchisees as well."
The "IPL management" is "under the scanner", Amin said, but "cricketing aspects are not under any questions". The new chairman said he was "not ready to accept this job but it was thrust on" him. "Ultimately I was prevailed upon and I took it up."
On his style of working, Amin said, "You can manage business in different styles, every one has their own style, flamboyance has nothing to do with cricket. Cricket is leisure if you present it in right spirit."
'Flamboyance' is a word that has been repeatedly used in the context of Modi's style of running the IPL, and was considered his trademark manner.
Source: The Indian Express
K.Venugopal
#1
Wednesday, 28 April 2010 10:33:31
The whole thing is a farce - making just one man, Lalit Modi, the fall guy. If IPL is only a sub-committee of the BCCI, as reiterated by the BCCI President, then the entire BCCI should have faced the sack. But the BCCI was prepared to carry out the Congress one-point agenda - to get rid of Lalit Modi for exposing Sonia Gandhi's blue eyed boy Shashi Tharoor. It is shameless that the BCCI President gives a clean chit to Sharad Pawer at his very first interview after sacking Lalit Modi. Who is he to give clean chits and on what basis has he done that? I think the whole lot should be sacked and an adhoc BCCI should be formed under someone neutral and yet well known, like Rajdeep Sardesai, who has both knowledge of cricket and proven administrative abilities. Unless something like this is done, it will be game as usual with everything swept under the carpet and Lalit Modi the scapegoat.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3864168&page=0
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