As the Dramatic finishing touches was happening at the DY Patil stadium between Chennai and Mumbai before a packed audience.BCCI Members were staying at a five star sub urban Mumbai hotel planning for the today’s IPL Governing Council Meeting.Not waiting for the Meeting to happen,Lalit Modi has been suspended as IPL chairman.
The BCCI has suspended Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman, for “alleged acts of individual misdemeanours”, bringing down the curtains on one particularly unsavoury episode in the BCCI’s history but very possibly leaving the door open for more twists in this saga. Modi’s
three-year reign was effectively ended moments after the conclusion of the tournament final in Mumbai on Sunday and he responded in melodramatic fashion with an emotional speech at
the awards ceremony.
The agenda at the Governing Council Meeting is now likely to focus more on life after Lalit: picking an interim IPL chairman and working out a plan for the future. BCCI sources say for the moment Manohar will himself take charge of the IPL sub-committee. The first few
weeks are likely to be spent in a clean-up operation and a scrutiny of the Modi-era transactions. The actual management of the league is likely to be handed over to a CEO – probably appointed from outside – with reduced powers but greater assistance. He could be
assisted by department heads for marketing, finance and logistics.
