Slapped with a second show-cause notice by the Indian cricket board, Indian Premier League's suspended chief Lalit Modi said he is unperturbed by allegations, and was backed by the English counties which outrightly rejected their cricket board chairman Giles Clarke's claims that he was trying to set up a parallel league in England.
Slapped with a second show-cause notice by the Indian cricket board, Indian Premier League's suspended chief Lalit Modi said he is "unperturbed by allegations", and was backed by the English counties which outrightly rejected their cricket board chairman Giles Clarke's claims that he was trying to set up a parallel league in England.
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman Clarke in an e-mail to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) alleged that Modi had made proposals to representatives of the Test-match counties at a meeting in Delhi that were "detrimental to Indian cricket, English cricket and world cricket at large".
Based on Clarke's e-mail, the BCCI sent a second show-cause notice to Modi, asking him to reply within 15 days. Modi is already facing the heat following the IPL controversy and has been charged with five counts of financial irregularities.
"Another day. Another show cause notice. Any guesses as to who's purpose ECB's Giles Clark was attempting to serve?," Modi tweeted Friday.
"At IPL Finals, I used a quotation from Bhagwat Geeta 'Fear not what is untrue'. I believe in this. Thus, I am unperturbed by allegations.
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A lot of you asking my views on case in supreme court filed by Muthiah . All I want to say is case is sub judice. Truth will prevail here too."
Clarke refused to divulge the contents of the e-mail he sent tou00a0 BCCI. It is alleged that Modi told the counties that a city franchise scheme in England would be backed by the IPL.
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Colin Povey, the Warwickshire CEO, Yorkshire's CEO Stewart Regan and Lancashire committee member David Hodgkiss attended the meeting.
Clarke alleged the meeting discussed a parallel IPL in England, in which eight existing Indian franchises would bid for English counties.
It was alleged that Modi proposed a deal in which IPL would guarantee each county a minimum of $3-5 mn per year plus a staging fee of $1.5 mn. The allegations have infuriated the counties.
"Yorkshire's chairman Colin Graves rejected any implication that Modi and his group had been involved in secret or destructive negotiations and insisted that Clarke had been given notes of the meeting," The Guardian reported.
