29 January,2011 06:45 AM IST | | Corrospondents
After Mumbai Indians, suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi questioned the last-minute changes made to the January 8-9 players' auction in Bangalore.
Lalit Modi
"The changing of players auction order as pointed by some franchisees is an issue which I highlighted when I saw the rules changed last minute. The order changing should not have been allowed as it gives advantage to teams that knew of it before," Modi wrote on Twitter.
Nikhil Meswani, executive director of Reliance Industries, in a letter to the IPL Governing Council asked why was the auction was changed from "selection of sets at random" to pre-decided "order of auction list" for the January 8-9 players auction, and said there was "no justification" for the last-minute change.
The franchises were informed about the last minute change by the Governing Council Jan 7, just a day before the auction.u00a0 Modi asked the Governing Council to look into the last-minute change.
"Some key players were put into second day. Why? Take a guess? Me raising these issues will of course get old guard rallied up against me and I am sure more warrants will be issued by their cronies in Chennai," he wrote.
