N Srinivasan

For wanting to contest the election for the post of BCCI chief

It must take a man of spectacularly tough skin to ride out a betting scandal as large and infuriating to the public as the one the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been accused of. But N Srinivasan, the sidelined president of the BCCI and the current chief of the ICC, on whose watch the betting and the spot-fixing scandal took place and whose son-in-law, Gurunath Meiyappan was found participating in this betting, is not just unfazed but also wants to run for the post of BCCI chief again. And what is more, he is widely expected to win the election.

According to the former chief of BCCI, since the Justice Mukul Mudgal report on spot-fixing has found nothing incriminating against him, he should be allowed to contest. This particular spin he was spreading in the media didn’t go down too well with the Supreme Court which had to bluntly tell him that he has not been given a clean chit. And that there was conflict of interest between him being the BCCI chief and owning an IPL teamsomething that people have been screaming hoarse about for years. A two-member special Bench said, “You can’t make a distinction between BCCI and IPL. IPL a is a by-product of BCCI.” Maybe at least now, Srinivasan will get the message.

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