Double trouble for Dalmiya

In the second, the BCCI decided not to allot any of the matches of the forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy to the CAB, saying the CAB put 8220;unreasonable conditions8221; to host.

The High Court order is serious, because a division bench 8212; comprising Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice P N Sinha 8212; observed that the trial judge had acted illegally in granting the stay. The court observed that there was no questioning the authority of the BCCI to issue such a notice, and the lower court should not have granted the stay because the allegation involved a large amount of money.

The bench, though, granted seven more days to Dalmiya to respond to the February 27 show-cause notice since Dalmiya had approached the trial court on March 8, nine days after the show-cause notice was issued. Dalmiya had been granted 15 days to answer the notice.

In the other attack, Board vice-president Lalit Modi said after a meeting with the ICC representatives in Mumbai late today that 8220;the CAB has lost the chance of hosting the Champions Trophy because of unreasonable conditions.

8220;We wanted to distribute an equitable number of matches to all centres, but the CAB wanted specific and later-stage matches, presumably the semi-finals and final, which was uncalled for,8221; Modi said. He said the Bengal cricket body did not want to host matches before October 23.

The BCCI vice-president informed that the CAB also did not agree to come under the rotation policy even if they hosted an India match during the prestigious tournament. But the BCCI insisted on applying the rotation policy to the Champions Trophy matches and decided against giving any match to the CAB.