Norman Arendse denies BCCI’s pressure behind abolition of ICL as alleged by Lalit Modi – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) pressurised the International Cricket Council
(ICC) to banish Indian Cricket League (ICL) in a bid to promote the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The ICL was banned in 2009 on the grounds that the IPL was gaining an overwhelmingly positive response from the cricket fans and sponsors alike.
Established in 2007, the ICL could only hold two editions before being snubbed. The IPL was founded in 2008 with Modi as its commissioner.
The Cricket League’s organisers, Zee Entertainment group, filed a petition in the court of law, challenging BCCI’s alleged move to exalt IPL at the expense of ICL.
Modi, who had also been vice-president of the Indian board, revealed yesterday that the BCCI pushed the global cricket governing bodies to outlaw ICL. He also confessed that he was also part of the heinous plot.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Green-c60723 light to the ICL managers who hope that they can win the case now and resume the tournament.
Arendse, who was a part of ICC’s executive board at the time of IPL and ICL row, has contradicted Modi’s professions. He said, “There were no undue processes, incentives offered or pressure exerted on the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 to outlaw the ICL.”
He further elaborated, “The issue of the IPL was tabled at an executive meeting. The BCCI informed the board of the ICL and the IPL and said that because the IPL was their creation, they were not prepared to endorse the ICL and give their players permission
to play in it or for it to use their grounds.”
Arendse is of the view that the ICC’s move to bar ICL was due to the fact that the council wanted to give freedom to all of its member boards to choose the tournament which they considered to be better.
Arendse told, “If the BCCI has sanctioned both the ICL and the IPL, that would have been none of our business either and we would have had nothing to do with it.”
Modi has brought BCCI, ICC and ICL in the same battle field against one another by making these revelations.
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