Lalit Modi admits players are negotiating outside the system – Cricket News Update
Ex-Indian premier League commissioner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lalit-Kumar-Modi-c72144, has admitted that it was a bad decision to not include all available players in the auction, as it has led to players striking deals outside the fixed system - a practice which he insists is prevalent in
the tournament today.
Defending the claim that the alleged corruption found in the league today was present owing to the manner in which the tournament had been structured during its inception under his charge, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Modi-c76470 pointed out that the system had been newly established then,
and there was no corruption, or any black money transactions going on at that time.
“You've got to understand that when we set up the league, it was in 2008, very early. We were trying it out and we did the system for three years,” Modi said.
“… but I do understand today, yes, players are being negotiated outside the system and contracts are being done with the players which say one thing and but are being paid another thing.”
Modi himself was suspended in April 2010 as the Chairman and Commissioner of the IPL owing to charges of impropriety, including revelations by the income tax department regarding his own silent stakes in three IPL teams - http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians
and Kings XI http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 – which led to suspicions regarding his involvement in match-fixing.
However, regardless of past personal scandals, in a recent interview with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajdeep-Dilip-Sardesai-c83464,
CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief, he insisted that the tournament had been corruption-free in the first few years.
The tournament has recently come under suspicion following a sting operation carried out by television channel
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 TV, which revealed that black money and bribes were being offered to players (particularly uncapped domestic cricketers) by franchises other than the ones they were associated with, involving amounts exceeding the rates fixed by the BCCI.
Modi went on to point out that these instances were prevalent throughout all the teams involved in the tournament. He revealed that it was not just domestic players who engaged in these under-the-table transactions, but international players too.
The ex-chief also acknowledged that it was only natural for franchises to want to obtain the best players they could get, and it was thus up to the governing council and management to ensure transparency and fair-play.
“… it is human psychology that they [franchises] will want the best players and they will try and negotiate with the best players. To avoid that, it's better to put them through a draft system,” he suggested.
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