ICC,BCCI have been sleeping: Lalit Modi on spot-fixing scandal

sleeping,8221; Modi said.

8220;ICC has to be an independent panel. It8217;s very shocking that we are at the tail end of the tournament and the ICC ACU,the BCCI and the IPL have not got a wind of this and we had to hear this from Delhi police,8221; he added.

Taking a pot shot at BCCI president N Srinivasan,Modi said power centres have changed in cricket now.

8220;Everything is governed out of Chennai. We need to take the power centre away from one person ruling ICC,BCCI and ICC.8221;

He also advocated legalisation of betting.

8220;Legalisation of betting is a must. That will be a step forward. And the government has been shying away from that for a long time.8221;

He said one can8217;t weed out corruption from sport.

8220;You can8217;t weed out corruption. That is there world-wide in sports. It is the administrators8217; job to put deterrents out there and be vigilant. You have got to understand that bookmakers are always trying to lure players,8221; Modi said.

About what he had done during his time as IPL chief,Modi said,8221;I had put in strong deterrents and unfortunately that led to me getting threats from the underworld having multiple assassination attempts.8221;