No deal over Kapil’s ouster — Lele

AHMEDABAD, SEPT 14: It could take a while for the dust to settle over the Kapil controversy. Two days after the legendary speedster quit as India’s national cricket coach, irrepressible BCCI secretary J Y Lele denied reports in a section of the press that the Board had struck a deal with Kapil to allow the latter a “graceful exit”. Lele also threatened to “reveal all” at an “opportune time”, following which Kapil “would not be able to show his face”.

The post script to Kapil’s leeter released to the press said, “The energetic Mr Lele will now have to find a new whipping boy”.

Today, reports in a section of press had suggested that Kapil had requested the Board to give him a letter asking him to “complete his contract”, which Kapil would then turn down and resign. However, the reports added, when kapil didn’t quit even after the board issued him a letter to that effect, BCCI president A C Muthiah asked Jagmohan Dalmia to call him up and ask him to “resign in 10 minutes” or he would call a press conference and “announce his dismissal”.

This, Lele told The Indian Express on the phone from Vadodara, was “not true”; no such understanding was reached.