Team Modi gets BCCI rocket: Send us all your IPL records

BCCI president Shashank Manohar met Union Minister Sharad Pawar to discuss the entire IPL situation. He later met BCCI media and finance committee chairman Rajiv Shukla and DDCA president and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley.

As a first move,the cricket bosses decided to probe allegations of financial mismanagement against Modi through an internal inquiry.

The issue of naming an interim IPL chairman pending inquiry also came up for discussion. The names of Manohar and Jaitley are already doing the rounds for a possible replacement.

In the present scenario,it would be in the best interest of the BCCI to clip Modis wings. But there are chances that he can still remain in the governing council as a member. In case the findings of the BCCI probe go against Modi,things can change, said a top BCCI official.

Pawar announced that the IPL governing council will meet on April 26 . Our total approach in the governing council will be to take collective,unanimous decisions,and give future direction to Indian cricket, he told reporters after Manohar flew in from Nagpur.

Asked whether Modi would accept the governing council decision,he said: Dont forget Mr Modi is also a vice-president of the BCCI… our total approach and past experience is that we always take collective and unanimous

decisions to which everyone is party,including Lalit Modi.

Landing in Mumbai from Dubai where he had gone to attend an ICC meeting,Modi parried questions about his resignation. There is no question of me resigning. We have the governing council…I will present all facts against me. There is nothing to worry about, he said.