04/06/2010
New Delhi: Giving a new twist to the bidding controversy, suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Friday claimed that the Twenty20 league's interim chairman Chirayu Amin was part of the consortium that made an unsuccessful bid for the Pune franchise in March this year.
Modi said Aniruddha Deshpande, Managing Director of City Corporation in which Sharad Pawar and his family had 16 per cent shares, made the bid in March for a new consortium which included Amin.
"There were three members in the consortium that was part of the bid. They were Aniruddha, Akruti and Chirayu Amin," said Modi, whose suspension saw Amin being appointed as the interim IPL chairman.
"It's a fact of life and I cannot change or distort facts. They were the bidders, one can't change that," Modi said.
Amin was not available for comments. Amin, a Vadodara-based industrialist who heads the Baroda Cricket Association, was named the interim chairman in April after Modi was suspended on charges of financial irregularities, including bid-rigging.
Modi had earlier defended Pawar, saying no one from the Agriculture Minister's family had anything to do with Deshpande's bid.
Source: PTI
K.Venugopal
#1
Saturday, 05 June 2010 11:10:39
BCCI Vice President Srinivasan owns Chennai Superkings and till the SC decides on the propriety of the situation, there is nothing illegal in other members of the BCCI attempting to own teams. There is nothing amiss in Chirauyu Amin's bid for a team. Even Sharad Pawar would have been within his rights to own a team. Shashi Tharoor, on the other hand, was not connected with BCCI and it is clear that he misused the powers of his office to get involved with the IPL bid.
http://sports.in.msn.com/cricket/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3975756&pgnew=true&_p=d5feb6c8-b033-4874-9911-cfbe445aa64f&_nwpt=1#uc2Lstd5feb6c8-b033-4874-9911-cfbe445aa64f
New Delhi: Giving a new twist to the bidding controversy, suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Friday claimed that the Twenty20 league's interim chairman Chirayu Amin was part of the consortium that made an unsuccessful bid for the Pune franchise in March this year.
Modi said Aniruddha Deshpande, Managing Director of City Corporation in which Sharad Pawar and his family had 16 per cent shares, made the bid in March for a new consortium which included Amin.
"There were three members in the consortium that was part of the bid. They were Aniruddha, Akruti and Chirayu Amin," said Modi, whose suspension saw Amin being appointed as the interim IPL chairman.
"It's a fact of life and I cannot change or distort facts. They were the bidders, one can't change that," Modi said.
Amin was not available for comments. Amin, a Vadodara-based industrialist who heads the Baroda Cricket Association, was named the interim chairman in April after Modi was suspended on charges of financial irregularities, including bid-rigging.
Modi had earlier defended Pawar, saying no one from the Agriculture Minister's family had anything to do with Deshpande's bid.
Source: PTI
K.Venugopal
#1
Saturday, 05 June 2010 11:10:39
BCCI Vice President Srinivasan owns Chennai Superkings and till the SC decides on the propriety of the situation, there is nothing illegal in other members of the BCCI attempting to own teams. There is nothing amiss in Chirauyu Amin's bid for a team. Even Sharad Pawar would have been within his rights to own a team. Shashi Tharoor, on the other hand, was not connected with BCCI and it is clear that he misused the powers of his office to get involved with the IPL bid.
http://sports.in.msn.com/cricket/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3975756&pgnew=true&_p=d5feb6c8-b033-4874-9911-cfbe445aa64f&_nwpt=1#uc2Lstd5feb6c8-b033-4874-9911-cfbe445aa64f
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