IPL’s governing council not to be compensated anymore, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mansur-Ali-Khan-c1894 Pataudi turns down the offer
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi has refused a post on the governing council of Indian Premier League (IPL). Pataudi is the second former Indian skipper to turn down the offer. Earlier Sunil Gavaskar had refused to take a position on the governing council of IPL.
Both Gavaskar and Pataudi were members of the original governing council of the Indian Premier League but decided not to be part of the reconstituted governing body after the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced that from now on that
the council members would not be paid.
Pataudi, who was on a contract with the original council of IPL, told the media reporters that he has sent a letter to the Board of Control of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 that he is not willing to continue anymore with the governing council.
"I have written a letter to the BCCI which states that I do not wish to continue with the governing council," Pataudi told media. "Earlier I was on a contract with the IPL, but the new changes are unacceptable for me. So, I have decided to move on."
In the initial setup of the IPL, which was headed by the controversial Lalit Modi, all the three former Indian cricketers on the governing council – Mansur Pataudi, Ravi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar – were getting a salary of Rs 10 million ($220,000 approximately)
for their services. The Indian cricket board, however, at its annual general meeting on 29th September said that the council members would not be paid anymore. The next day the former skipper Sunil Gavaskar refused the offer of Board of Control
of India to be part of the IPL’s governing council opining that he believed that the Indian Premier League was a commercial venture and those working with the league should be compensated.
"The IPL is a commercial enterprise and non-BCCI members, former cricketers included, should be remunerated for the expertise, experience and time that they bring to the table," said Gavaskar.
The BCCI, at its annual general meeting, made a number of changes to the governing council of league and cutting down the remunerations of the members was one of those. According to the wholesale changes made by the BCCI, the existing body of the IPL was
dissolved and a new one was set up with Chirayu Amin as its chairman. Five other members were also included in the reconstituted council named - Ajay Shirke, Arun Jaitley, Rajeev Shukla, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ranjib-Biswal-c83999 and Anurag Thakur.
The third former cricketer of India, Ravi Shastri, has agreed to work with the governing council in an honorary capacity.
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